Re: setting up PostgreSQL on Linux RHL9 to allow ODBC connections

Not quite correct. TCP needs to be turned on AND an according entry in
pg_hba.conf needs to be set up - otherwise the server will just decline to
talk to the client.
Also - if you're on XP you might want to check the "firewall" settings - which
if configured wrong could potentially block connections on port 5432. If you
have a default setup of XP it should be fine though.

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:56 pm, William Yu wrote:
> There's nothing on the server side that needs to be configured for
> Windows clients to access Postgres via ODBC. As long as TCP/IP is turned
> on. Just add a data source and configure the server
> ip/name/port/database/etc.
>
> SCassidy(at)overlandstorage(dot)com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have seen a bunch of different documentation on how to set up to allow
> > ODBC, but I am a little confused about how much/what has to be set up to
> > allow an ODBC connection from Windows (mostly 2003, some XP) to an
> > existing PostgreSQL (7.4.6) database on Linux (RedHat 9 version
> > 2.4.20-6smp).
> >
> > Most of the documentation is talking about setting up Unix to Unix odbc,
> > or Windows to Windows, not Windows to Unix/Linux.
> >
> > Some documentation talks about installing the "full" distribution on
> > Windows, but I just want to allow some Windows software that "speaks"
> > ODBC (SilkTest) to be able to connect to an existing database.
> >
> >
> > In the document
> > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/genpage.php?howto-redhat,
> > it says to download rpms and install them, but I don't really see any
> > rpms for this. I see source distributions at
> > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/src/, but nothing for version
> > 7.4, just 7.3 and 8.0. I am reluctant to upgrade to 8.0, as I am not
> > sure it is stable yet, and my installation is running so well.
> >
> >
> > The howto-redhat document also talks about running:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > psql -d template1 -f /usr/share/pgsql/odbc.sql
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > to modify template1, but what about existing databases?
> >
> > I'm somewhat nervous about doing anything to potentially mess up anything
> > on my Linux server, as this is a production database.
> >
> > Then, you have to set up the iodbc driver manager, etc. On this server,
> > I have had some issues with using rpm's in the past, and have often had
> > to resort to building things myself (configure, make, etc.)
> >
> > I'm also not sure about how to specify a DSN to do the connection from
> > the Windows side (I'm primarily a Unix/Linux person).
> >
> > Does anyone have any specific advice/experiences to offer on setting this
> > up as simply as possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Susan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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