How to access remote mysql host on Ubuntu inside VMware?
- by Nick Grossman
Hi,
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 inside VMware fusion on Mac OSX Snow Leopard. Inside ubuntu, I'm attempting to use command-line mysql to connect to a database hosted on a separate web server. For some reason, mysql misinterprets the remote hostname as a local address, and is not able to connect to the database.
Steps: (from ubuntu inside VMware)
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