help me please**********

if i were to set up internet access to a mysql database with the mysql and jswdk on the !same! server, how would i set up the mysql host, user, and db tables?
I have been having numerous troubles with doing this, mostly in the part that my java servlet returns the mysqlexception "server config denies access to data source"
I figure this must be a problem with the way my access tables are set up. currently they are..
under host
there are localhost and machinename rows

under user there is
localhost ...root .. password
localhost ...eric ...password

under db there is
% the_db_name ..user

i cannot understand what is going wrong , i have been at this for so long..should there be something else under user/host, is it incorrectly set?
thanks a million, eric