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insetead of giving grants to localhost provide access for some ip or use % it will definately work for you.

mysql -u root

mysql> use mysql;

mysql> update user set password=password('some pass') where user='root';

mysql>grant all on *.* to 'root'@'%' identified by 'some pass' with grant option;

flush privileges;

now check from any machine it will work.