Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

Answer 1

You'll probably have to grant 'localhost' privileges to on the table to the user. See the 'GRANT' syntax documentation. Here's an example (from some C source).

"GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON %s.* TO '%s'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '%s'";

That's the most common access problem with MySQL.

Other than that, you might check that the user you've defined to create your instance has full privileges, else the user cannot grant privileges.

Also, make sure the mysql service is started.

Make sure you don't have a third party firewall or Internet security service turned on.

Beyond that, there's several pages of the MySQL forum devoted to this: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,9293,9609#msg-9609

Try reading that.

Answer 2

Another possibility:

There are two ways the MySQL client can connect to the server: over TCP/IP, or using sockets. It's possible you have your MySQL server configured to support socket connections, but not network connections.