Can't login to MySQL remotely !

[titley100]

Hi there I am using red hat enterprise 5.6 as the main (local) DB server, currently I am trying to access MySQL using MySQL query browser from a windows machine.

I keep getting an error as follows when I try to log in:
MySQL Error number 1045

I know the username and password is correct as I use these locally, also I can ping the RHEL server.

The port 3306 is also open and I have also issued the command:

GRANT USAGE ON *.* To 'root' at '<ipaddress>' IDENTIFIED BY '<root password>'

But this doesn't seem to work and I am now running out of ideas help me please !

Thanks in advanced.

[atreyu]

Can you temporarily try a wildcard definition, to see if that is your problem? e.g.:

GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Is there anything helpful in the mysqld.log?

[titley100]

Can you temporarily try a wildcard definition, to see if that is your problem? e.g.:

GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Is there anything helpful in the mysqld.log?

Thanks mate the wildcard definition seems to have worked much thanks have been looking for a solution for this for a while thank you !!!