Re: Unable to add server in PGadmin

manoj nair wrote:
> Hi,
>      I have installed postgres 8.2 on a Windows Vista machine.
> PGAdmin came along with the installation and on opening PgAdmin there is
> a POstgresSQL DATAbase Server 8.2(localhost:5432) server running on it.
> I have another windows machine XP and i have PGadmin installaed on it too.
> I am trying to add a server to this PGadmin so that i can access the
> Vista Postgres server remotely.
> Before when the postgres was running on a linux machine i didnt have any
> problem connecting to it with  my PGAdmin client (i had the ip address
> of my windows XP machine in the pg_hba.conf added).
> I was following the same with the Vista machine too...
> But ia m unable to connect to Windows Vista machine from Windows XP -
> Pgadmin "Connection to database failed." is what i get and the add
> server window pops up again.
> I am pretty new to postgres installation on windows and is there any
> thing else i need to do with the configurations..

Windows Firewall blocking you perhaps? Or maybe you're only listening onlocalhost - check the listen_addresses option
inpostgresql.conf.
 

Regards, Dave.