Quoting Agnello George agnello.dsouza@gmail.com:
Also on the server i cannot stop the firewall setting cuse of security reasons ..... most of the help on line say that the problem is resolved if the server's fire wall is disabled .
Does any one have any ideas how to get around this !!!
You may have to get the sysadmin to add an exception for port 3306. Or maybe try to run mysql on a port which is not blocked by firewall.
Anurag