Unable to connect java to mysql

Question

I have installed mysql on my linux machine (i didnt modify any default configuration settings, just using the default settings). And in my lan, from another machine in windows from my java code i am trying to connect to mysql of linux, but donno why i get connection refused error. Can someone help me to figure what the steps i am missing or need to do?

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply. I do not have any network managers. I have installed mysql on my linux machine and also started mysql. Now in remote machine i have downloaded mysql-connector-java-5.0.4-bin.jar file and using this jar file my java code is trying open a connection to mysql.
          try {
               Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
          }catch(Exception ce) {ce.printStackTrace();}
          try {
               Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://192.168.20.160:3306/mysql","root","new_password");192.168.20.160 is the linux machine where mysql is running.
But of no use, i get connection refused error. following is stacktrace
SQLException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception:
** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **
java.net.SocketException
MESSAGE: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
STACKTRACE:
java.net.SocketException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
     at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:156)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:276)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:2666)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:1531)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:266)
     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:525)
     at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:171)
     at TestDriver.main(TestDriver.java:11)
** END NESTED EXCEPTION **
Last packet sent to the server was 63 ms ago.
SQLState: 08S01
VendorError: 0