There is an arcane error message in the otherwise most excellent "phpMyAdmin" MySQL management web application. It looks like this: "The additional features for working with linked tables have been deactivated. To find out why click here." The link goes to a list of phpMyAdmin configuration settings and one of them will be clearly highlighted as the source of the problem.

These are swell clues, but there's nothing that actually says what you should do about it. Here's the answer for this particular error message.

The highlighted item is the name of the table that phpMyAdmin is looking for in it's own database.

The problem is that this table either doesn't exist or, more likely, has a different name.

If the name is different from the table in the database, just change the name that is entered in your config.inc.php file to match the actual name in the database.

If the database doesn't exist then check the phpMyAdmin docs for how to use the setup script to create it. If the database is there, but the table isn't, use phpMyAdmin to create it.