Folks. I installed postgresql in my RHEL Server. I do a ssh login to server and start it. but the "nmap localhost" does not show the postgresql port 5432 But the server is running and as the "postgres" user i can user the server. I have created a normal user for postgres and working fine. I can not access the postgresql server from the client machines. I want the users should not login to server to access postgresql server. "nmap <serverip>" from any client dows not show the 5432 port. No firewall is running in te server. How to remote access the postgresql server? regards, T.shrinivasan.