No there is no binding address defined in my.cnf file.

Yeah always this "bind address" topic came into picture when i am dealing with this issue but if i have to specify a single ip address to connect from, whats the point in creating a user with wildcard "%"? Am i not restricting the server to allow connections from a specified host against to the given privilege of user that he can connect virtually from anywhere?

Have you connected to Linux Machine from Windows Prompt anytime? Is it possible actually?

Yes i have tried using the IP address only. But the same result! :(

Hi DTest, Thanks for the reply! If i create a user for example 'user'@'%' then it should be able to connect to the host MySQL server from any remote machine. I am using the account similar to what i mentioned now with '%' wildcard as the host value.