Simone Gadenz <s.gadenz@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have PG 8.3 running on a KUBUNTU installation running on a virtual > machine. From inside the virtual machine I can use PGADMIN to manage PG > but when I try to connect from the xp machine I have this error: "Error > connecting to the server:FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file" . Look into the postmaster log to get more details about what it didn't like. (Also, consider using a client that doesn't throw away the HINT part of an error message ...) regards, tom lane