Following the advice on this forum, I've been able to connect to a MAMP installation from XP using Bonjour 1.05. From any browser in XP I can see the sites on MAMP via 'macbook.local.' Very nice, indeed. However, I'm having no such luck connecting to the mySQL instance MAMP runs. From the myODBC driver I tried macbook.local with a port of 3306. Same thing when using the local Parallels NAT IP 10.211.55.2. The error I receive is simply [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver]Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.37.129.2' (10060). Both firewalls are completely turned off. This person seems to have it working: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?37,128743,129716#msg-129716 but their recommendation isn't appropriate in my case because I'm not getting a security issue. I can't see the server at all. Does anyone have any ideas?