Re: Is the server running on host "192.168.2.111" and accepting TCP/IP conn

Purusothaman A <Purusothaman.A@gmail.com> writes:
> My system IP is 192.168.2.111, and client machine IP is 192.168.2.89.

> I can connect to the PostgreSQL server with " psql -Uroot -h192.168.2.111"
> from same system(192.168.2.111)

> If I give the above command from 192.168.2.89, results

> E:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin>psql -Uroot - h192.168.2.111
> psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
>         Is the server running on host "192.168.2.111" and accepting
>         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?


I'm betting that you have some firewall software on that server that
needs to be persuaded to let through nonlocal connections to port 5432.

> I have read that we have to specify option "-i" while starting postmaster to
> accept TCP/IP connections from other systems. (Is it right?)

No, that's been superseded by listen_addresses, which you appear to have
set correctly already.  (If you modified that entry, you did restart the
postmaster afterwards, right?)

            regards, tom lane