Re: SQLConnect failure

greg(at)bryantrecording(dot)com wrote:
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] SQLConnect failure
>> From: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>
>> Date: Mon, April 02, 2007 2:54 pm
>> To: greg(at)bryantrecording(dot)com
>> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>
>> In response to greg(at)bryantrecording(dot)com:
>>
>>
>>> We have code that has been using MSDE/SQL Server successfully for
>>>
>> years,
>>
>>> and are adding Postgres support. Doing a SQLConnect to connect to a
>>> local Postgres server works fine, but if we try to connect to a remote
>>> system, the SQLConnect fails, and we get an error code that seems to
>>> indicate "The value specified for the argument UserName or the value
>>> specified for the argument Authentication violated restrictions defined
>>> by the data source.".
>>>
>>> We can connect via pgadmin to the remote system, so we believe all the
>>> little .conf files should be correct, but can't get in
>>> programmatically. Any pointers on where to look?
>>>
>> The logs on the PostgreSQL server would be a good place to start.
>>
>> This sounds suspiciously like a pg_hba.conf misconfig. You might want
>> to verify its correctness.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks guys. I can connect to the remote server via pgadmin on a
> different machine, so I'm pretty sure that the .conf files are correct
> (that took awhile, but there are very good diagnostic messages when
> they are wrong). When I set the hba, the encryption is set to MD5 -
> does that need to be set somewhere on the client side?
>

What version of the PostgreSQL ODBC driver you are using?

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