some help here ?
i cant seem to be able to login to phpmyadmin from a remote PC. localhost works ok
can any one direct me ....configs below

/* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http';
/* Server parameters */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '123.456.789.100';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://123.456.789.100/phpmyadmin/';
/* Select mysqli if your server has it */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
/* User for advanced features */
// $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
// $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'pmapass';
/* Advanced phpMyAdmin features */
// $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';



please note that the line $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] was not there ... it as been added trying to get a solution that still doesn't work

Your question is a bit confusing. But let me see if I can clarify.

Okay when you sit in front of the machine that runs phpMyAdmin everything works. I guess MySQL it self is also installed on the machine running phpMyAdmin.
Question is
1.) can you just not login into phpMyAdmin from a remote machine
or
2.) you just dont see phpMyAdmin from the remote machine.

if 1.) is the case check out the permission of the SQL Server
on 2.) see if you can reach any other website on the server running phpMyAdmin. Might be a firewall or similar between.

clarification :

- mysql is installed
- mysqld service is running
- httpd serivice is running

from local machine 127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin or 192.168.1.1/phpmyadmin everything is ok

from the PC 192.168.1.2/phpmyadmin i get an error 404 Not Found. and yet i know the page is avilable since it's loading from the localhost

Hm, bit strange. Did you check the logs of your webserver?

/var/log/apache2/error.log
or
/var/log/apache2/access.log

Can you reach any other page on the phpmyadmin machine? Just create a file with somtehing like
name it index.html and put it in the document root of your webserver. A connection to 192.168.1.1/index.html should give you the above line....