Posted by Dan Guzman on 10/19/06 12:24

Try posting this question to a MySQL forum. This group is specialized in
Microsoft SQL Server.

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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

"Nospam" <nospam@home.com> wrote in message
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> on trying to change the
> password it says this:
>
> C:\PROGRA~1\MYSQL\MYSQLS~1.0\BIN\MYSQLA~1.EXE: connect to server at
> 'localhost'
> failed
> error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)'
> Check that mysqld is running on localhost and that the port is 3306.
> You can check this by doing 'telnet localhost 3306'
>
> telent localhost 3306 says "could not open a connection to localhost"
>
> and typing:
>
> C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin>mysqld-nt
> 061018 21:17:10 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile 'C:\Program
> Files\MySQL\MySQL
> Ser
> ver 5.0\share\english\errmsg.sys'
> 061018 21:17:10 [ERROR] Aborting
>
> What could be wrong?
>
>

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