How to connect to remote database?

[Dodgebill]

I am moving my store to a new host and I'm trying to work on the database on the new server but can't because it is not under my license until I change the DNS info over. I need to make changes now to get it all working before I do that.

I have already setup 'allow remote MySQL' on the new server. I changed the global.inc.php file with the new info but I get an error that does not accept the password of the user. I tried the username/passwords of both the new and old database and still nothing. It's finding the server but not letting me in

here is my globals file. The names have been changed obviously

$glob['adminFile'] = 'admin.php';

$glob['adminFolder'] = 'admin';

$glob['dbdatabase'] = 'user_DBname';

$glob['dbhost'] = 'newhostserver.com';

$glob['dbpassword'] = 'password';

$glob['dbprefix'] = '';

$glob['dbusername'] = 'newhost_username';

$glob['encoder'] = 'ioncube';

$glob['installed'] = '1';

$glob['license_key'] = 'license_key';

$glob['rootRel'] = '/backup/';

$glob['storeURL'] = 'http://www.mydomainname.com/backup';

Any tips on how to do this?

Thanks

Bill

[Dodgebill]

Doesn't anyone know how to do this? I really need some help figuring this out

Bill