Sometimes you may get an error from NetBeans that you cannot connect to MySQL even when other applications can.  Most likely the fault is in the {{bind-address}} setting in {{my.cnf}}.  To fix this,

* Open {{/etc/mysql/my.cnf}}
* Comment out the line that reads {{bind-address = 127.0.0.1}} (or {{localhost}} or something.
* Restart MySQL ( {{$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart}} )

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