Access denied to user ODBC, but trying to login as root I'm trying to do a backup of a MySQL database on Windows, but for some reason it's trying to log me in as ODBC instead of root - does anyone know why?

As you can see below the red line, I can login to MySQL no problem.
The only thing I can suggest is to explicitly choose a host by doing one of the following:

mysqldump -hlocalhost -uroot -ppassword ideal_inv &gt; ideal_inv.sql

mysqldump -h127.0.0.1 -uroot -ppassword ideal_inv &gt; ideal_inv.sql