Re: PostGreSQL remote access

You've most probably just misconfigured something in the pg_hba.conf file
because of the error message you're getting. Happened to me more than once.

If you allow it, paste the contents of your pg_hba.conf here and surely
someone (hopefully one would be me) in the list could point out what's
wrong.

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Mel
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From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of David Rickard
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:01 AM
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Judith Strawser; Dave Cimini
Subject: [NOVICE] PostGreSQL remote access

System: sparc-sun-solaris2.6
PostGreSQL build: 7.3.3
Problem: remote access through firewall

We installed PostGreSQL on a Solaris machine; we need to access the db
remotely, via JDBC or through pgAdmin; we have edited the pg_hba.conf file
to (theoretically) allow access to a test db from a developer's PC--but all
access attempts (via JDBC or pgAdmin) are rejected with this error message:

A connection error has occurred: FATAL: No pg_hba.conf entry for
host <IP>, user postgres, database testdb

The IP address returned in the error message is for our firewall;
PostGreSQL is configured to receive tcp/ip requests ( tcpip_socket = true
in the postgresql.conf, and postmaster is started with the -i option); our
sysadmin says that port 5432 is open (as is presumably indicated by the
refused connection attempt);
We can connect to the db via JDBC--when the Java program is run on the
same machine as PostGreSQL;

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David Rickard
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