[Fredd]

aight,

so i created a new db on a external web server then created a user and set the permissions for the user to full and everything.

then i went to the database.cfg and i changed the "default" info to the connect to the db on my external web server

and then ofcourse i went head and moved "sql-admin-manager.smx" and "admin-sql-threaded.smx" from the disabled folder to the main plugins directory.

i reloaded the server and using an gameserver tool(HLSW) i went a head and typed "sm_create_adm_tables" in console and then the server just crashed, well i could say it wasn't really a crash because it came back online within prob 40 seconds with a the following message

01:38:47 L 04/01/2008 - 02:38:40: [sql-admin-manager.smx] Could not connect to database: [2003]: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'host' (10060)
01:38:47 [SM] Could not connect to the database.

i doubled check my database.cfg with username and password and they were pretty much right

so then i figured that my web server might be blocking the connection so i went a head(cpanel users might be familar with this) "Remote MySQL" and i added my game server ip twice, once with just the ip and second with ip and port attached.

still doesn't work and the same exact thing happens, so the last attempt was to change the hostname name i put from 'name.com' to 'ip address of the domain' and no change occurred still the same issue.

so i want to know
1: have i done something wrong?
2: did i miss anything?
3: do i need to update my SourceMod, im currently on r1946

P.S: i had a very very similar issue with sourcebans where it just didnt want to connect to the mysql database, thats why i dropped it.