Problems running WordPress on OSX local network

Hello,

Can someone please please help?!

I have been trying to run WordPress on a group of Apple MACs via local area network. I setup a machine to act as the host machine, using MAMP to provide the MySql/Apache sever. I called this machine “studioblog”. I called the new database in MAMP “wordpress”. The wp-config.php settings are:

db name: wordpress
db username: root
db password: root
db host: localhost

I enabled Personal Web Sharing and placed MAMP’s “htdocs” folder in the ‘Sites’ folder on the “studioblog” machine so that now it sits in the following directory:

Users/kashif/Sites/htdocs/wordpress/

Now, the wordpress site works fine on the host machine. When I try to access it from another machine, I try using the following address:

https://”IP Address”/~kashif/htdocs/wordpress/
or
https://studioblog.local/~kashif/htdocs/wordpress/

What I get from this is:

“Error establishing a database connection”

Any ideas what’s going wrong?

Kashif.