Re: Allowing a connection from other client in the network

From: "Oliveiros Cristina" <oliveiros(dot)cristina(at)marktest(dot)pt>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Allowing a connection from other client in the network
Date: 2007-09-24 17:57:26
Message-ID: 009001c7fed4$5de77440$ec5a3d0a@marktestcr.marktest.pt
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Your solution worked perfectly, Tom.

Thanks a million

Best,
Oliveiros

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Oliveiros Cristina" <oliveiros(dot)cristina(at)marktest(dot)pt>
Cc: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Allowing a connection from other client in the network

> "Oliveiros Cristina" <oliveiros(dot)cristina(at)marktest(dot)pt> writes:
>> I need to allow access to the postgres server(windows) from a remote
>> machine (10.61.90.231).
>
>> I changed the postgresql.conf to include the line :
>
>> listen_addresses = 'localhost,10.61.90.231' # what IP address(es) to
>> listen on;
>
> This is incorrect. listen_addresses must specify the interface
> addresses of your *own* machine, not some other one. Usually if you
> want to allow remote connections, you should just set it to '*' and let
> the postmaster figure out what the machine's IP address(es) are.
>
>> And I changed the pg_hba.conf file (also on data dir) so now it has a
>> line like this
>
>> host all all 10.61.90.0/24 md5
>
> This part's OK.
>
> You might also have a third problem: if the machine has any sort of
> firewall software, the firewall might need to be adjusted to let in
> remote connections to port 5432.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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