[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       postgresql-admin
Subject:    Re: [ADMIN] Is the server running on host "192.168.2.111" and accepting TCP/IP conn
From:       Tom Lane <tgl () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us>
Date:       2006-08-25 13:48:55
Message-ID: 23224.1156513735 () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us
[Download RAW message or body]

Purusothaman A <Purusothaman.A@gmail.com> writes:
> My system IP is 192.168.2.111, and client machine IP is 192.168.2.89.

> I can connect to the PostgreSQL server with " psql -Uroot -h192.168.2.111"
> from same system(192.168.2.111)

> If I give the above command from 192.168.2.89, results

> E:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin>psql -Uroot - h192.168.2.111
> psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
>         Is the server running on host "192.168.2.111" and accepting
>         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?


I'm betting that you have some firewall software on that server that
needs to be persuaded to let through nonlocal connections to port 5432.

> I have read that we have to specify option "-i" while starting postmaster to
> accept TCP/IP connections from other systems. (Is it right?)

No, that's been superseded by listen_addresses, which you appear to have
set correctly already.  (If you modified that entry, you did restart the
postmaster afterwards, right?)

			regards, tom lane

---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate
       subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your
       message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]