This particular example is going to be based on a connection from Windows XP using Putty, MySQL GUI tools and Dreamhost.
Quick summary of issue: I want to use MySQL Query Browser to access my database on my dreamhost account. The database allows connections from the webserver only – nothing external. I have an SSH account on the webserver.
Quick answer: This requires us to tunnel from our machine to the webserver and connect through this tunnel to the database server.
Lets take a look on how we can accomplish this:
