Hi guys

I am an absolute newbie here.
I just installed mysql-4.0.21 on my windows 2000 professional system, and here is what I came face to face with -
1) when i give the following command at the command prompt, the system hangs indefinitely
mysqld --standalone

2) when i later abort the above command and try giving the command
mysqladmin create testDB
It gives me the following error -
mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'testdb''

Please help me solve this.
Looking forward for an early reply.

Thanks

Suhaib

mysqld is a server process and it must run always so do not close this process if you want to connect to server...