Connecting to External Database

I’ve searched on this for the last hour and haven’t found anything useful. I’m getting the “Error establishing a database connection” message.

I want to connect to my external database. I’m running wordpress locally. So I have changed the DB_HOST to my actuall mysql host.

I had previously setup everything locally including mysql. Then I was pretty happy with everything and wanted to try developing locally but connecting to my dev mysql account.

So I’m using something like this

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘mydbname’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘myuser’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘mypwd’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘mysql.myhostname.com’);

Where ll the details are as they should be. I have used the setttings in ssh to connect to mysql so I know they’re right.

Am I missing something? I’m sure this can be done..

My mysql account is with Dreamhost if that matters…

HELP!