It's listening on the standard port (3306) so no I didn't. But I just tried it now and it made no difference (works from the command line; fails from xsp2). On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:32 -0400, Brown, Robert wrote: > Have you tried specifying the port in the connection string? -- Loren Bandiera <lorenb at mmgsecurity.com> MMG Security, Inc.