Re: Workbench connection and mysql service

[Mike Lischke]

Hi Dave,

glad to read you solved the issue. With your additional info I finally understood what you initially thought your problem is. The service key in the password dialog has nothing to do with Windows services, so their names don't need to correspond to each other. The best approach is probably to name your Windows services like MySQL55, MySQL56 etc. The string used for the password "service" is fixed, you can't change that. It's just an internal string used to separate different passwords for the same host (e.g. mysql. ssh, wmi).

See also my Youtube video (MySQL Workbench: Connection Creation and Trouble Shooting (for beginners)) which mentions this shortly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCgRF4KOYIY&list=PLWx5a9Tn2EvH0q2WXpUBqptxi5640qk9O.

Mike

Mike Lischke, MySQL Developer Tools
Oracle Corporation

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