Re: Remote Connection Help - Mailing list pgsql-general

I am at a loss for what to do. I have read article after article about how to allow remote connections on my PostgreSQL server and none of what the articles say do, worked for me. I have edited the “postgresql.conf” file and changed “listen_address = ‘localhost’ to listen_address = ‘*’. I have even tried it commented out and uncommented and I get the same results. I also edited the “pg_hba.conf” file and added the following at the end of the file:

 

host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5

host all all ::/0 md5

For testing connection purposes I'm used to change md5 to trust, this way you won't have troubles with passwords nor users.

 

After that I restart the server, try to connect remotely, and I get nowhere. I have even added the following rules to my iptables:

 

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --sport 1024:65535 -d xx.xx.xx.xx  --dport 5432 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

 

iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s xx.xx.xx.xx --sport 5432 -d 0/0 --dport 1024:65535 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

Have you tried turning of iptables service? If you turn it off and try to connect remotely after that, you can test if the problem is in iptables or not.

 

My computer that is running the server is Ubuntu and it has a static IP. I am trying to connect remotely with computers running Windows 10 using the static IP. When I run pgAdmin from my Windows 10 machine, or use the command line to connect, I get the following error:

 

unable to connect to server:

 

could not connect to server: Connection refused (Ox0000274D/10061) Is the server running on host " xx.xx.xx.xx" and accepting

TCP/IP connections on port 5432'

 

I would like to be able to connect to my Ubuntu PostgreSQL server from all Windows 10 machines as well as from a client on my Android phone while away from home. That is my goal now. I am hoping that someone can help me to get this working. This is been very frustrating.