You should take a look at the pg_hba.conf file in the PG_DATA dir. You
probably either don't have an entry for the machine you are using to
connect from or you haven't started with the -i option to enable TCP/IP
connections.
Also, it would help to know what the client is (PHP, a C program compiled
with libpq, a PERL program using DBI, psql....)
At 04:18 AM 4/14/00, Romain Giry wrote:
>When I try to use postgres 6.5 from a client that is not logged on the
>localhost. I get this :
>Connection to database 'mydb' failed
>Unsupported frontend protocol.
>
>I've seen the same problem in a previous mail but the error may not come
>from the postmaster, that is not enough recent because I've installed the
>postmaster and the pgsql server from the same CD (red-hat 6.0).
>Maybe it comes from the files that allow access to people for logging on
>from a distant computer, please can somebody tells me which are these
>files and what should be modified on them.
>And if you have any other idea to solve my problem, thank you very much
>for answering me.
>
>
>Sorry for my english, I am a french student...
>Romain Giry, <mailto:Romain.Giry@supelec.fr>Romain.Giry@supelec.fr