On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 08:14 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > On 15/09/11 22:40, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:30 -0400, Jeff Adams wrote: > >> > >> When I try to connect to the remote machine, I enter \\<server>\<ip_address> > >> into the host name field. > > > >The host field should contain the > > socket complete path, or the host name, or the ip address. > > As Guillaume says - try just the IP address to start with. What you've > been trying is sort-of a Windows networking path. Odd that pgAdmin > doesn't give an error though. > Probably because the OP entered the Windows networking path in the Name field, and didn't change the Host field. In which case, pgAdmin most likely try to connect locally. > If you were using psql you'd type something like: > psql -h <ip-addr> -U <username> -d <dbname> > > Once you're happy the ip-address is working, try just the server-name by > itself. You'll want the internet name for the machine which in theory > can be different from the Windows network name, but usually is the same. > -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
