RE: [GENERAL] No DB connection in Netscape ? Please help.

Thanks so much, Amos. That worked and now I can connect to the database
from anywhere in the network using NS/applet.

Thanks to Cameron J. Mallory and Kenny Freeman for responding.

Keep it up, guys.
Nishi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amos Hayes [SMTP:ahayes(at)ingenia(dot)com]
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 2:05 PM
> To: Kapoor, Nishikant X
> Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] No DB connection in Netscape ? Please
> help.
>
> On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Kapoor, Nishikant X wrote:
>
> > Typing "mm01: netscape http://genx/PrfApplet.htm" brings up the
> applet
> > in the NS
> > but the database connection is not established. The Java console
> shows:
> >
> > openDb(PrfDb):Connecting to Database URL = jdbc:postgresql:prfdb...
> > openDb(PrfDb): Could not connect. e= security.Couldn't connect to
> > 'localhost' with origin from 'genx'.
>
>
> > The same problems exits when I start NS from the same machine where
> the
> > PostgreSQL
> > server is running i.e. the Linux box(genx).
> >
> > *** But, when I use "genx: netscape http://127.0.0.1/PrfApplet.htm"
> on
> > genx, the
> > *** database connection gets established.
>
>
> I'm guessing that you have to configure postgress to allow connections
> from other hosts. In the fist case, you are comming from another
> machine
> and it won't let you in. In the second case, you are comming from the
> same
> machine but using the machine's hostname. In this case, your IP stack
> is
> telling itself that the connection is comming from your IP address not
> your localhost address, so it won't let that in either. The third try
> works because postgres is told that the connection is comming from
> 127.0.0.1 which it is (by default I assume) configured to accept.
>
> This is behaviour that I've seen for all sorts of other access control
> situations, so I'm guessing it's the problem here. If I'm not
> mistaken,
> you want to have a look at the pg_access man page and the pg_hba.conf
> file.
>
>
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