Lukasz Brodziak <lukasz.brodziak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As in the topic I can't connect to a PG installed in ubuntu on > virtualbox. The host system is Windows XP, pg is running on ubuntu > as I van connect to it through pgadmin on VB. When I try to > connect to it from software running on the host system I get the > error asking whether the server is running on host 192.168.56.101 > and is accepting connections on port 5432 which it does. Have you set listen_addresses? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-connection.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CONNECTION-SETTINGS > Pg version is 8.2.4 instelled from source. Major release 8.2 hits end of life in five months. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy 8.2.4 is very old. You should be on the latest bug fix release of 8.2. http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning You can get some sense of the bug and security fixes you will be missing by reading the files from 8.2.5 to 8.2.21 here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release.html If setting listen_addresses and restarting PostgreSQL doesn't fix your connectivity problem, please read this page and post again: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
