Having trouble Connecting to multiple instances on remote server

[Chris Isaksen]

I'm very new to mysql.

I have successfully installed mysql 5.6.10 on SUSE 11.2 and configured it to run multiple instances using the mysqld_multi setup. (my.cnf in /etc)

I have configured 3 instances each with their own port and socket files. All start up normally and using the configured files from /etc/my.cnf.

The problem I'm having is connecting to the individual instances just using the port number. It keeps wanting the default socket file that I'm not using. In the case of SUSE -->(/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock). It works if I specify the --socket option when on the local server but this doesn’t help when trying to connect to it remotely.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks