Hi..yes, I have set the "listen_addresses" to "*"...rather an obvious first stop...As I said - I have no problems connecting locally, or on a LAN - no sweat at all. Simply cannot get the connection to work from another network over a WAN. I believe the problem stems from my not setting pg_hba.conf correctly, but I would love to test this! This is my pg_hba.conf file from my developement box: # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5 # IPv6 local connections: host all all 10.0.0.0/24 md5 host all all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 md5 At one stage, I even looked up the source ip address reported by aports when I was logged onto the machine remotely..even that address did not work. So I figure there is a problem with the subnet mask (don't realy understand the address masks all that well - I am a programmer, not a network tekkie, so it is kind of new territory for me). What I was wondering is if there was some way to allow any host to connect, regardless of ip and subnet which was the behaviour I expected from the 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 setting - of course it did absolutely nothing. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq