How to Fill in the Various Fields in the ODBC Administrator Program

There are three possibilities for specifying the server name on Windows95:

Example of how to fill in the ODBC setup:

 Windows DSN name:   test
 Description:        This is my test database
 MySQL Database:     test
 Server:             194.216.84.21
 User:               monty
 Password:           my_password
 Port:
 

The value for the Windows DSN name field is any name that is unique in your Windows ODBC setup.

You don't have to specify values for the Server, User, Password, or Port fields in the ODBC setup screen. However, if you do, the values will be used as the defaults later when you attempt to make a connection. You have the option of changing the values at that time.

If the port number is not given, the default port (3306) is used.

If you specify the option Read options from C:\my.cnf, the groups client and odbc will be read from the C:\my.cnf file. You can use all options that are usable by mysql_options(). See mysql_options().