Guys, Thanks for your help. When I saw that netstat was not listening as *.5432 I decided to; svcadm disable svc:/application/database/postgresql_83:default_64bit Then; pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -l postmaster.log start This fixed the problem. You guys were right on the money, looks like restarting via smf was not picking up the config changes. So I guess they need to be made elsewhere in Solaris. I can now talk to my PG DB via a remote host. Big thanks the help. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/How-to-add-hosts-to-pg-hba-conf-and-postgresql-conf-tp3708421p3719853.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