Firstly thank you very much to Geoff for taking the time to post an answer! Great!
This post is not intended as a put down or critique but as a thank you to the kind person who bothered and to tell other users how I solved my problem in the hope that other people may have less problems. Now to the solution. I used the latest software that was marked as stable for the OS available. The first problem I struck was the installation instructions. Maybe I missed them but there did not appear to be any for the complete installer package. Thus I ended up installing Postgres and configuring Postgres as per instructions. That worked fine. Then I run the complete installer thinking that it would only apply to TinyERP. Unfortunately I found out during the installation that I needed to uninstall Postgres. The good point: the installation told me about this very early. The bad point: I wasted some time installing / configuring Postgres. Next came the uninstall of Postgres. This did NOT remove all traces of the application. Thus when I installed using the complete installer 4.0.2 for the first time I was unsuccessful. Next I found that the installer used a different directory structure to the Postgres only installation. Everything appeared to work. I connected to the Postgres server via phAdmin and there were no problems. I checked that the TinyERP service was up and running = OK. I then attempted to run the TinyERP client = unable to connect to DB or on later re-install attempts incorrect username or password. As this did not work I applied the instructions in the installation instructions and generated the terp DB in Postgres and initialised as per the instructions in the manual installation. Apart from the instruction about the demonstration version (which I could never get going) these instructions were very good. I just loved the sample commands! Still no success using the TinyERP client. Thus I un-installed again and re-installed. By now I deleted all folders that related to the installation but when re-installing some settings remained. That means that the un-install did not remove all of the installation and even removing folders associated with the installation did not remove everything. Next came the find of version 4.1 under the heading "development". Who would have thought the "BETA" and "development" have the same meaning? Well, sometimes I explain things in a funny way thus why not on the TinyTRP web site? The 4.1 installer was even worse as far as uninstalling was concerned. It made a great mess uninstalling and it took me a long time to get back to normal. Who would have thought that folders would be dribbled throughout windows? No matter which installation I tried, manual, combinations of versions, complete installers the result appeared to be identical - the client told me either that it could not find any DB or the username or password were incorrect. After downloading an Oracle based system I gave it one more go after I found out from a mate that the password within the client is set to "admin" by default. I must have missed this in the installation instructions. While the instructions mentioned to create a "terp" DB were there my client just refused to connect to it no matter how and what I tried. I finally found the menu option in the client that allowed me to changed the administration password. As the client did not accept the Postgres superuser password to connect to a DB I attempted to change the "admin" password from within the TinyTRP client using the knowledge acquired from my mate re the "admin" password. Eureka!!! Finally I got a reaction in the client other then an error message. I then created a database using my new found knowledge about passwords and it worked! I then logged out and attempted to log in again. Hey! The username that appeared was "admin" and it did NOT accept the super user password but it accepted a default password of "admin". Finally I was able to work with TinyERP. I now think it is a great little utility that lacks a little in the installation documentation and un-install routines. Uwe : www.uwepacker.net.au _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
