right at the beginning.
I installed my sql on a win2000 platform, activated mysqld and
I tried:
\mysql\bin\mysqladmin -password mypassword
and recieved an error message saying:
"connect to server at localhost failed.
error:access denied for user "ODBC@localhost" (using password: YES)"
I do not understand this error message.
I'll be gratefull to whoever explains that to me.
Thanks !

i think u should activate mysql too after activating mysqld

use
\mysql\bin\mysqladmin -u yourusername -password mypassword