How to enable remote access?

Sorted it out finally. I have to say that was one of the most convoluted problems I've encountered on the PC. When I executed # vi etc/mysql/my.cnf It came up with a message then hit enter to continue and I thought it had failed as I scrolled to the bottom of the scroll bar and didn't see the information I needed but then I found that I could continue to scroll down further. Skip Networking is also no longer in the original config file so all that was required was to change the bind address.

This was all just to enable my raspberry pi to generate a database to allow sync across other units but I felt like Alice going in rabbit hole after rabbit hole getting deeper and deeper to solve what seemed to be a simple requirement.

Sorry for the whinge and thanks for the little bit of guidance.