Hello I have spent hours trying to make this work, but its still not working. I tried to connect using my Java program and using pgAdmin III. Postgre is hosted on a Debian 5 64 bit vps and here are the changes I made. I edited postgresql.conf and changed listen_addresses = 'local' to listen_addresses = '*' After that I edited pg_hba.conf and added the following line at the end of the file host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5 and I restarted postgresql by using Quote: /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 restart but I always get the following error Connection refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections. Any idea how I can fix my problem? Best Regards! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Can-not-connect-remotely-tp28195027p28195027.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general