Re: Unable to connect to the server - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Unable to connect to the server
Date
Msg-id 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B8128B28@mail.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to Unable to connect to the server  (Lee Tuck <tuckkhai@yahoo.com>)
List pgadmin-support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Tuck [mailto:tuckkhai@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 24 October 2002 08:45
> To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] Unable to connect to the server
>
>
> Hello,

Hi,

> I am a new user to pgAdminII. I faced some problem
> during the installation in Windows 2000. Below are the
> errors:
> Error 1931. The Windows Installer service connot
> update the system file C:\WINNT\System32\hhctrl.ocx
> because the file is protected by Windows. You may need
> to update your operating system for this program to
> work correctly.

This is common on Windows 2000, and is far more alarming than it should
be. It can be safely ignored.

> After the installation, i try to connect to the
> server. the server is located locally. Below are the
> errors i faced during the connection to the server:
> An error has occured in
> pgAdminII:frmConnect.cmdConnect_Click:
> Number:-2147467259
> Description : Could not connect to the server. Could
> not connect to the remote socket.
>
> I am using cygWin as the Unix emulator. I started the
> cygWin-ipc_Daemon and the postmaster service. Postmaster
> service is started using the below command: postmaster -D
> /usr/share/postgresql/data &
>
> the configuration in the pg_hba.conf is as below:
> host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust

Make sure you have enabled tcp/ip sockets, either by adding -i to the
postmaster command line, or by editing
/usr/share/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf.

Regards, Dave.

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