Re: connecting to linux server from windows xp

Sebastian Scarano <opensas(at)gmail(dot)com> schrieb:
> But I don't know how to connect from the xp guest to the postgresql server
> running on the gentoo host.
>
> Any ideas???

Yes, edit your pg_hba.conf - file. This file contains rules for
client-access. It is self-explanatory by comments.
By default PG don't allow access via network. And, of cource, PG should
listen on the interface, check this in the postgresql.conf, line
'listen_addresses = ...'.

HTH, Andreas
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