configurar acceso remoto a mysql

[Montes28]

goransh_pc gracias por responder

en en firewall tengo la configuracion para aceptar las conexiones entrarnes del puerto 3306


more /etc/sysconfig/iptables
# Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Wed Nov 7 09:54:38 2012
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [317:40629]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p esp -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p ah -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -d 224.0.0.251 -p udp -m udp --dport 5353 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT



soy novato en linux

que puede estar fallanado?