Hi,
Thanks for the replies, but I'm still unable to connect. I am using mySQL Administrator to connect, and I can ping my site IP address. I gave the database access through cPanel to my machine, and now I am getting an error that the connection is refused , and the user is my user name , in the correct format, but the user name is followed by
'@pool-168-161-206-28.ny325.east.verizon.net' . I am using a DSL line through verizon, could this be the problem?