title: ODBC 3.51 Driver Can't connect to MySQL server on localhost (10061)
body: <p>Exactly what the title said; I'm trying to configure an ODBC connection for MySQL 5.0, but upon clicking <em>Test Data Source</em>, it returns the above error.</p>
  
  <p>I'm pretty sure most of you have seen this question before, and I did do some research before thinking about posting this, but so far, none of what I found and tried were able to help.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using MySQL 5.0, running on Windows 7 32-bit. I can browse the database fine with the MySQL Query browser which means (I'm assuming) that the username and password are fine.</p>
  
  <p>There is a 'MySQL 5 - Started' under Services. I named it that way because I had installed an older version of MySQL (3, iirc) for a project. Since I don't need it yet, I disabled it (it's not running).</p>
  
  <p>Here's what I tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Firewalls were disabled to begin with.</li>
  <li>Replacing the 'localhost' with '127.0.0.1' (Didn't work)</li>
  <li>Going into Command prompt, cd to C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin, and executing  mysqld-nt (I have no idea what that is for, but it didn't do anything)</li>
  <li>Running 'Telnet localhost 3306' in the Command Prompt returns 'Could not open connection to the host , on port 3306: Connect failed.</li>
  <li>Stopping the service, going into C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\data, deleting ib_logfile0, ib_logfile1, and ibdata1, and then restarting the service (Didn't work).</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I'm assuming here that it might have something to do with the port 3306, as typing netstat -a in the command prompt gets me a list with no 3306 in it (as far as my eye can tell), so I'm not really sure how to proceed (port forwarding? Don't know how to do that).</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.</p>