First, I modified these lines in the postgresql.conf file: tcpip_socket = true port = 5432 virtual_host = '20.20.20.4, localhost' where 20.20.20.4 is the address of the postgres server. Is this needed? Second, I modified pg_hba.conf and added this line: host all all 20.20.20.5 255.255.255.0 trust where 20.20.20.5 is the client machine that I need to access the database from. Then I call "pg_ctl reload -D data_directory" to reload the config file changes. Then from the client I issue: pg_dump --host=20.20.20.4 -o mydb > remotedump pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "mydb" failed: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host "10.10.18.53" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
It looks like the server is not configured properly. Does anyone know what I am missing? One strange thing is the postmaster.opts file contains the following: cat postmaster.opts /usr/bin/postmaster '-i' '-h' '127.0.0.1' I though it would contain '-h' '20.20.20.4, 127.0.0.1' because of my virtual_host setting. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Lewis Kawecki E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]