Re: connect from network PC

Thanks, everything running ok now


Bob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Robert Morgan" <robert_@ihug.co.nz>
Cc: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] connect from network PC


> "Robert Morgan" <robert_@ihug.co.nz> writes:
> > Hi I have Postgres installed on a PC running RH9 which is networked to
my o=
> > ther (win2k) PC. I have created a couple of DB's and want to connect to
the=
> > m from my win2k PC using DBTools however I get this error message:
>
> > Loading Server pgsql@localhost (PostgreSQL): could not connect to
server: C=
> > onnection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
> >  Is the server running on host 192.168.0.1 and accepting  TCP/IP
connection=
> > s on port 5432?
>
> Did you tell Postgres to accept network connections?  (-i switch on
> postmaster command line, or set tcpip_socket true in postgresql.conf;
> note you must restart postmaster to make this change effective.)  Keep
> in mind also that you will need to change pg_hba.conf to allow such
> connections, but it sounds right now like the postmaster isn't listening
> on the TCP socket at all.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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