Re: [GENERAL] Why postgres install requires physical access to

2006-04-06 Thread Andrus
> There's always VNC: http://www.realvnc.com/ That way Windows won't know > you're not sitting in front of it, and if you've got to access it from > across the country on a linux or BSD or MAC box, it still works. VNC requires additional port to be opened. I have no free opened ports in W2K se

Re: [GENERAL] Why postgres install requires physical access to

2006-04-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:07, Andrus wrote: > Remote install of Postgres 8.1.3 using Windows installer binary package is > not working (says that console mode is required) even when RDP client is > started with > > mstsc /console > > switch. > > However, using installer package, creating cluster

Re: [GENERAL] Why postgres install requires physical access to server in windows

2006-04-05 Thread Andrus
> Second, make sure that you have the correct version of mstsc. mstsc /? > will tell you if your current client supports the /console parameter. > (If it doesn't, it'll silently eat it and ignore it) I think I use mstsc from XP SP2 mstsc /? returns --- Usage

Re: [GENERAL] Why postgres install requires physical access to server in windows

2006-04-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
> >> mstsc /console > > > > It should work fine with this switch. I've used it many times. > > I ran "mstsc /console" from my XP Proffessional and tried to > install Postgres 8.1.3 in two different > servers: > > Windows 2003 > Windows 2000 > > Both cause the following message: > > ---

Re: [GENERAL] Why postgres install requires physical access to server in windows

2006-04-05 Thread Andrus
>> mstsc /console > > It should work fine with this switch. I've used it many times. I ran "mstsc /console" from my XP Proffessional and tried to install Postgres 8.1.3 in two different servers: Windows 2003 Windows 2000 Both cause the following message: --- Internal er

Re: [GENERAL] Why postgres install requires physical access to server in windows

2006-04-04 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Remote install of Postgres 8.1.3 using Windows installer > binary package is not working (says that console mode is > required) even when RDP client is started with > > mstsc /console > > switch. It should work fine with this switch. I've used it many times. > However, using installer pack

[GENERAL] Why postgres install requires physical access to server in windows

2006-04-04 Thread Andrus
Remote install of Postgres 8.1.3 using Windows installer binary package is not working (says that console mode is required) even when RDP client is started with mstsc /console switch. However, using installer package, creating cluster and server process manually works OK from RDP client! Any id