<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Have you checked that there is not still another bind-address setting<br>
somewhere in the config files that is overriding your new setting?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. There are only 2 files with bind-address under /etc/mysql :</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">$ sudo grep -ir "bind-address" *<br>conf.d/mythtv.cnf:bind-address=0.0.0.0</font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br>mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf:bind-address = 0.0.0.0<br>mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf:mysqlx-bind-address = 0.0.0.0</font><br></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If you have IPv6 enabled, set bind-address=:: instead of<br>
bind-address=0.0.0.0.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I did have IPv6 enabled (accidentally) but I have now disabled it. But I still can't make a remote connection to mysql. BTW I'm testing this from a shell on a remote machine like this:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">$ mysql -u mythtv -h 192.168.0.120 -p mythconverg</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>Could it be that the problem is to do with granting permissions on tables? <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Setup" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Setup</a> has examples of grant commands but they're more arou what to do on initial setup when creating user mythtv. If I'd done something wrong there and that could be the cause of the problem, how can I fix that up now?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>