I had a MariaDB server running on port 3306. I created a local MariaDB account ‘tommy’ with: CREATE USER ‘tommy’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘somepassword’ and granted all rights with: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘tommy’@’%’ WITH GRANT OPTION; flush privileges; so that ‘tommy’ should be able to log on to the MariaDB server remotely. But,