Hi List! I forward this message from John Down (thanks to him): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- don't know, if that breaks anything in your code, but it seems to work for me: there is something in common.lib.php that makes it impossible to connect to mysql on a Windows System via Pipes. It's on lines 298-301: // Don't use servers with no hostname if (empty($val['host'])) { unset($cfgServers[$key]); } If I comment this out, Pipes are also possible. I just wanted to mention, maybe there are some people interested in the "skip-networking" option for mysql, which makes it possible to operate without an open 3306 tcp port on Windoze also. At least I never saw this somewhere documented, but if you give no hostname, php connects via pipes on the localhost. Funny: $cfgServers[1]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; has no meaning in that case... Have a nice day, Jones -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif