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Guess you are referring to this error message -
Check your username & password, and make sure that you are authorized to access the server.
If your password & username are correct, there might be a network problem that prevents you from connecting to the machine where the MySQL server is running. To make sure that they are no network failures, click on the "ping" button.
This will "Ping" the MySQL server host. If the host is available (no network failure), you will
receive a message similar to this -
Reply from 127.0.0.1: Time=0ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: Time=1ms TTL=128
If you don't it means there's a problem with the network.
