How to connect C# Winform Project to the XAMPP MySQL server in LAN?

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I have wrote a simple program which uses MySQL db server of XAMPP. Program works fine when I connect to 'localhost':

But when I try connect a MySQL db from another computer (in my LAN):

it gives below error:

But I can connect to that 'phpmyadmin' from browser:

(or Can it be that the computers which I'm testing are domain members?)

Answer 1

Actually the problem was, MySQL server settings has set to work only for local connections (by default):

So, then I uncommented the second line and chanded to:

And it worked. ' 127.0.0.1 ' means localhost and ' 0.0.0.0 ' means any host

Answer 2

Please check your Firewall on the remote machine. It might block the mysql connection and has an exception rule for HTTP Ports, thats why phpMyAdmin is reachable.