Hello, I'm running Windows 2000 Professional 5.00.2195 SP 4, trying to configure
MySQL 3.23.58, but I keep getting error messages when I try to create a test
database.

In MySQL Admin screen, I saw that the driver 3.51 was not found, so I downloaded
the odbc driver 3.51, rebooted, etc. I no longer see that up in the Admin
panel; the driver is located but I'm still getting a "Not Found" status for
MyODBC.

My console keeps displaying this error:

C:\mysql\bin>mysqladmin create testDB mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'testdb''

I've tried reconfiguring "my.cnf":

[mysqld] basedir=C:/mysql datadir=C:/mysql/data # Example mysql config file. # Copy this file to c:\my.cnf to set global options # # One can use all long options that the program supports. # Run the program with --help to get a list of available options # This will be passed to all mysql clients [client] #password=my_password port=3306 #socket=MySQL # Here is entries for some specific programs # The following values assume you have at least 32M ram # The MySQL server [mysqld] port=3306 #socket=MySQL skip-locking set-variable = key_buffer=384M set-variable = max_allowed_packet=1M set-variable = table_cache=512 set-variable = sort_buffer=2M set-variable = record_buffer=2M set-variable = thread_cache=8 # Try number of CPU's*2 for thread_concurrency set-variable = thread_concurrency=8 set-variable = myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M server-id = 1 # Uncomment the following if you want to log updates #log-bin # Uncomment the following rows if you move the MySQL distribution to another # location basedir = c:/mysql/ datadir = c:/mysql/data/

# Uncomment the following if you are NOT using BDB tables skip-bdb # Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables #set-variable = bdb_cache_size=384M #set-variable = bdb_max_lock=100000 # Uncomment the following if you are using Innobase tables #innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:2000M;ibdata2:2000M #innodb_data_home_dir = c:\ibdata #innodb_log_group_home_dir = c:\iblogs #innodb_log_arch_dir = c:\iblogs #set-variable = innodb_mirrored_log_groups=1 #set-variable = innodb_log_files_in_group=3 #set-variable = innodb_log_file_size=5M #set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=8M #innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1 #innodb_log_archive=0 #set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=16M #set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M #set-variable = innodb_file_io_threads=4 #set-variable = innodb_lock_wait_timeout=50 [mysqldump] quick set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16M [mysql] no-auto-rehash # Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL safe-updates [isamchk] set-variable = key_buffer=256M set-variable = sort_buffer=256M set-variable = read_buffer=2M set-variable = write_buffer=2M [myisamchk] set-variable = key_buffer=256M set-variable = sort_buffer=256M set-variable = read_buffer=2M set-variable = write_buffer=2M [mysqlhotcopy] interactive-timeout

I've pored through the html manual that was bundled with MySQL, my.ini setup
seems good. I'm logging into the system with Administrator priveleges. I can't
figure out why this isn't working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, - Rob