Crystal Reports and MYSQL

First Question.

Do we know yet when the issues with restoring the MYSQL database to MSSQL will be fixed?

Second Question.
I have been trying to pull of some custom reports using Crystal Reports but I am having trouble accessing the data source remotely using the ODBC connector.

It connects fine when I am on the server from which service desk is hosted but I have Crystal Reports installed on my computer. When I try to add the data source on my computer I get a SQL error.

I then used telnet to test the connect to my pc to the server on the mysql port and gave me a permissions error.

How can I allow my PC to access the database?

reports are due Friday afternoon so I could really do with some help on this

Thanks in Advance

YTsysAdmin