Hey I've been trying to set up a mySQL server today, and I can get so far, but keep getting a problem, I've never done anything like this before so I'm quite happy to accept that I'm missing something easy, but any help would be gratefully received. I'm running Suse 7.1 Brgds, Alud ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - amy:~/mysql-3.23.37-pc-linux-gnu-i686 # ./bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password ******** Enter password: ******** /bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)' --------------------------------- So then I try and check that the server is there: --------------------------------- amy:~/mysql-3.23.37-pc-linux-gnu-i686 # ./bin/mysqladmin version ./bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.19 Distrib 3.23.37, for pc-linux-gnu on i686 Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license Server version 3.23.37 Protocol version 10 Connection Localhost via UNIX socket UNIX socket /tmp/mysql.sock Uptime: 59 min 37 sec Threads: 1 Questions: 5 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 6 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 0 Queries per second avg: 0.001