tAB120L

Arrgh... I've downloaded MySQL workbench and it works fine. After that success I tried another Delphi component and that can connect too! Why the others are not working I don't know, but don't care anymore. The goal was to reach the db from Delphi. Thanks for your support and the tip for MySQL workbench.

Now I tried with SQL Query Analyzer, can't connect. Just downloaded some SQL app from Playstore for my Android phone, they also can't connect.

Thanks, these were my first thoughts as well and tried most of them. I'm on a simple home network now. (cablenet -> modem -> router) Yes, on my PC there is an additional firewall, but I tried to connect from another PC also where there is only Windows firewall. Not helped. To be sure if not the router causing the issue I connected to my mobile's hotspot, same problem. I'm really out of ideas.

Hello, I just registered an account on server johnny. (cPanel login: tab) I created a db and a user. Added the user to the db. Enabled the remote login from "%" hosts. I've tested the connection from an other host with php, it works fine. So it seems the remote access is really enabled. But when I try to connect to the db from my Delphi app (using the same host name, user, password and db name as in php) it gives an error message "Server does not exist or access denied". I just give an other try from Excel, but same issue... Any idea what can be wrong? Thanks, tAB