Quoting Ben Suffolk <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>>> actually have done anything. > >>> > >>> thank you for your reply. A truly amateurish mistake by me :) > >>> > >>> BUT fixing that one did no good. The problem remains. > >> > >> Did you restart the server after changing those lines? > >> > >> -- > > > > Yes. > > When you try and connect check /var/log/messages for any errors, and > let us know what (if any) errors are reported. > 1) These are the latest messages ( /var/log/messages ) Only my test of closing down & reopening postgresql. Oct 26 18:33:25 joymap su(pam_unix)[4901]: session opened for user postgres by root(uid=0) Oct 26 18:33:25 joymap su(pam_unix)[4901]: session closed for user postgres Oct 26 18:33:33 joymap postgresql: postmaster shutdown succeeded Oct 26 18:33:35 joymap su(pam_unix)[4951]: session opened for user postgres by root(uid=0) Oct 26 18:33:35 joymap su(pam_unix)[4951]: session closed for user postgres 2) Enrico's firewall propotion: There is a firewall in WinXP ( F-Secure ). I allready tried disabling it. I have also configured the Red Hat security level. Right now it allows all traffic thru eth0. 3) I managed to get a connection-lookalike: netstat print: tcp 0 0 <my_psql_server_domain>:postgres <my_client_domain>:2429 TIME_WAIT What next?
