title: Allowing Remote Access on my Xampp MySQL DB
body: <p>Okay I apologize in advance if this seems to be a trivial question but I am new to databases and such so here's my problem.</p>
  
  <p>I have installed xampp and using their MySQL database service. I also able to connect to my database remotely in my network yet I would like to access the database that i have created from another computer out side my LAN. So far i have created a user named "Lester" with all privileges enabled and the host set to "%". In the config file i have it set as follows</p>
  
  <pre><code># The MySQL server
  [mysqld]
  user=mysql
  port=3308
  socket      =/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock
  key_buffer=16M
  max_allowed_packet=1M
  table_open_cache=64
  sort_buffer_size=512K
  net_buffer_length=8K
  read_buffer_size=256K
  read_rnd_buffer_size=512K
  myisam_sort_buffer_size=8M
  bind-address = 0.0.0.0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do i go about connecting outside of my network.. </p>