That's a great site - I am now making a connection. Thanks for all the help! John -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:28 PM To: John Edens Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to configure for remote TCP/IP client conncections using MS Visual Basic OLE DB calls and PostgreSQL dll's? On 03/09/2011 09:59 AM, John Edens wrote: >> If I am following, 144.96.80.35 is your server address not the clients. >> In pg_hba.conf the IPs are those from the clients you want to let in, >> so you will need to use an IP or mask that matches that of your >> client. To reduce confusion you might want to do that in the section >> for remote connections :) > >> Per the explanation above your client IP does not have access to the > server. > > Okay, I have set the mask as described... > > I can now use pgAdmin III to access the database on the server from my > desktop machine, which I could not previously do. > > However, the VB code still gives the error previously described. > > Thanks for the config file help - any ideas about the OLE DB > connection problem? > What I know about OLE would fit in the navel of a flea:) That being said I offer: http://www.connectionstrings.com/postgre-sql#p53 It would seem your connection string needs different information. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general