cant access remote mysql server need help

Question

I have a unix server with mysql which I am trying to access from my machine. To clarify, access the mysql server. When I do I get this error.

Connecting to MySQL server 192.168.1.25...
Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.25' (10061)

Here are my credentials:

username: root
port: 3306

The server is running because I am able to remotely login onto the machine (with ip: 192.168.1.25" and then run mysql from root. What do you think is going on:

1. Is it a firewall issue?
2. Accessing as 'root' is being denied?

I am new to mysql.

Answer 1

1) check the logs you can see where the logs are by checking the my.cnf file. mysqld.log might be the file name, but where

2) a. see if it's a network issue.

telnet 192.168.1.25 3306

b. see if the service is at that port. ssh to the box # from the local host mysql -u root telnet 127.0.0.1 3306

ps auxw|grep mysql

you should hopefully have enough diagnostic info at this point to figure it out.