WordPress MU

I have placed the files from the wordpress-mu zip into my server folder and I have a database/user set up (with all permissions) ready to go. I have the htaccess.dist file untouched and still have only the wp-config-sample.php in the folder (no wp-config.php file though).

When i go to my index.php I get the
Error establishing a database connection when going to my site. I still have not been able to access the install page.

i think the problem that you came with is you cant not access the index.php page,right?

if it was,
i think you can change the URL from
http://localhost/wordpressmu/index.php
to
http://youripaddress/wordpressmu/index.php

have a try
Rocky

Error establishing a database connection means that your WPMU install is not seeing MySQL. Either the information you entered during the install is bad or MySQL is not running on your server.

I have not yet done the install so it can't be anything like MYSQL - which is working fine. Also I don't have the WPMU in a wordpressmu/ folder. The issue feels like something with permissions or htaccess.dist

Might be permissions of the mysql user. Does it have access to the database you;re trying to use?