Allowing access from other hosts

To allow access from your workstation (to use mysqladministrator?)
you must allow access. 
 mysql> update user set host='10.125.0.3' where user='root' and host='localhost';
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1 Changed: 1 Warnings: 0

mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)