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HELP!!!  "Database Connection Error" with an app that using MYSQL

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Hi, I have a program that uses MYSQL for its database.  If I execute the program locally on the server it seems to come up just fine.  However, if I try to execute it remotely using a shortcut with a mapped drive to the program on the server from a desktop (Windows XP Pro or Windows 7), it gives me error messages.

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First error message: Database Connection Error [SQL Error: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)]

Second error message: The exception unknow software exception (0x0eedfade) occurred in the application at location 0x7c812afb.

Third error message: The instruction at "0x01d06d30" referenced memory at "0x00000000".  The memory could not be "read".

Fourth error message: The exception unknown software exception (0x0eedfade) occurred in the application at location 0x7c812afb.

Fifith & final error message: The instruction at "0x01768e20" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not "read".
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I tried turning off the firewall and even uninstalling the antivirus/antispyware software and it still does not work remotely.

Only other thing I can think of is that the software needs a patch or something.

I did perform a few Microsoft Updates on the Server 2008 Standard 32-bit OS.  But not sure how that will effect the app.

Everything else seems to be working just fine.

Any ideas or suggestions of what else I should look at?


Thanks in advance.
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> First error message: Database Connection Error [SQL Error: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)]

If you're running it from a remote machine, localhost won't work anymore - it needs to connect to <remote machine>:<port 3306>.  So you probably are not going to be able to do this with a shortcut, because it needs to run differently from your remote machine than it does locally.
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Maybe the application can receive a parameter, that way you can have the shortcut send some parameter and the link from the localhost a different one.
David Johnson, CDSimple Geek from the '70s
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or set a static ip for the sql server and replace localhost with the ip address
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OK, apparently, I wasn't given all the information on this.  The client's run an app on their desktops, which I thought it was just a shortcut pointing back to the exe on the server via a mapped network drive.

So, the issue was that one of the exe files became corrupted.  It is suppose to be 400+ kb in size, but was actually 1kb.

Thanks for all your suggestions.
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This is the answer.  An exe file was corrupted, which caused the issue.  The file has been replaced and everything is working as before.

Thanks.

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