Thread: Connecting from xp to linux server
Hi all, this is the problem I am facing. I have PG 8.3 running on a KUBUNTU installation running on a virtual machine. From inside the virtual machine I can use PGADMIN to manage PG but when I try to connect from the xp machine I have this error: "Error connecting to the server:FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file" . I set the permission in the pg_hba.conf on the server. The machine talk each oher, I can ping and use telnet on the 5432 port. The log on the server does not report any problem. Ideas? -- Dr. Simone Gadenz via P. Togliatti 69, 50051 Castelfiorentino (FI) +39 339 6053660 *INFORMATIVA PRIVACY (ex D.lgs. 196/03)* Le inormazioni contenute in questo documento e nei relativi allegato possono essere riservate e sono destinate esclusivamente alla persona od alla Società indicata come destinatario. La diffusione e la distribuzione del presente documento a soggetti diversi da quelli indicati, od in genere qualsivoglia utilizzo illecito dei dati ivi contenuti, e proibita sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 del Codice Penale che dal D.Lgs 196/03 in materia di protezione dei dati personali (Privacy). Se avete ricevuto per errore questo documento siete pregati di distruggerlo e di comunicarcelo prontamente tramite e-mail o fax.
Simone Gadenz wrote: > Hi all, > > this is the problem I am facing. > > I have PG 8.3 running on a KUBUNTU installation running on a virtual > machine. From inside the virtual machine I can use PGADMIN to manage PG > but when I try to connect from the xp machine I have this error: "Error > connecting to the server:FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file" . > > I set the permission in the pg_hba.conf on the server. > > The machine talk each oher, I can ping and use telnet on the 5432 port. > > The log on the server does not report any problem. > > Ideas? > If you can telnet then I would say your network and firewall is right and the error with pg_hba.conf is where you need to look. The pg_hba.conf is located in the data dir that you have specified for postgresql. Is it there? What entries do you have after all the comments? The errornous part would indicate a small syntax error or did you edit it on windows with cr/nl characters and copy it across to linux? -- Shane Ambler pgSQL (at) Sheeky (dot) Biz Get Sheeky @ http://Sheeky.Biz
Simone Gadenz <s.gadenz@geologyx.it> writes:
> I have PG 8.3 running on a KUBUNTU installation running on a virtual
> machine. From inside the virtual machine I can use PGADMIN to manage PG
> but when I try to connect from the xp machine I have this error: "Error
> connecting to the server:FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file" .
Look into the postmaster log to get more details about what it didn't
like.
(Also, consider using a client that doesn't throw away the HINT part
of an error message ...)
regards, tom lane
Shane, I attached the pg_hba.conf I have on the server. I can use pgadmin3 when I connect from the server itself, so I think the pg_hba on the server is correct. From the client machine I cannot connect through pgadmin3. Is there another way to test connection client server? Has pg a textual client to send sql statements? Thanks a lot Simone Shane Ambler ha scritto: > Simone Gadenz wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> this is the problem I am facing. >> >> I have PG 8.3 running on a KUBUNTU installation running on a virtual >> machine. From inside the virtual machine I can use PGADMIN to manage PG >> but when I try to connect from the xp machine I have this error: "Error >> connecting to the server:FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file" . >> >> I set the permission in the pg_hba.conf on the server. >> >> The machine talk each oher, I can ping and use telnet on the 5432 port. >> >> The log on the server does not report any problem. >> >> Ideas? >> > > If you can telnet then I would say your network and firewall is right > and the error with pg_hba.conf is where you need to look. > > The pg_hba.conf is located in the data dir that you have specified for > postgresql. Is it there? What entries do you have after all the > comments? The errornous part would indicate a small syntax error or > did you edit it on windows with cr/nl characters and copy it across to > linux? > > > -- Dr. Simone Gadenz via P. Togliatti 69, 50051 Castelfiorentino (FI) +39 339 6053660 *INFORMATIVA PRIVACY (ex D.lgs. 196/03)* Le inormazioni contenute in questo documento e nei relativi allegato possono essere riservate e sono destinate esclusivamente alla persona od alla Società indicata come destinatario. La diffusione e la distribuzione del presente documento a soggetti diversi da quelli indicati, od in genere qualsivoglia utilizzo illecito dei dati ivi contenuti, e proibita sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 del Codice Penale che dal D.Lgs 196/03 in materia di protezione dei dati personali (Privacy). Se avete ricevuto per errore questo documento siete pregati di distruggerlo e di comunicarcelo prontamente tramite e-mail o fax. # PostgreSQL Client Authentication Configuration File # =================================================== # # Refer to the "Client Authentication" section in the # PostgreSQL documentation for a complete description # of this file. A short synopsis follows. # # This file controls: which hosts are allowed to connect, how clients # are authenticated, which PostgreSQL user names they can use, which # databases they can access. Records take one of these forms: # # local DATABASE USER METHOD [OPTION] # host DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD [OPTION] # hostssl DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD [OPTION] # hostnossl DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD [OPTION] # # (The uppercase items must be replaced by actual values.) # # The first field is the connection type: "local" is a Unix-domain socket, # "host" is either a plain or SSL-encrypted TCP/IP socket, "hostssl" is an # SSL-encrypted TCP/IP socket, and "hostnossl" is a plain TCP/IP socket. # # DATABASE can be "all", "sameuser", "samerole", a database name, or # a comma-separated list thereof. # # USER can be "all", a user name, a group name prefixed with "+", or # a comma-separated list thereof. In both the DATABASE and USER fields # you can also write a file name prefixed with "@" to include names from # a separate file. # # CIDR-ADDRESS specifies the set of hosts the record matches. # It is made up of an IP address and a CIDR mask that is an integer # (between 0 and 32 (IPv4) or 128 (IPv6) inclusive) that specifies # the number of significant bits in the mask. Alternatively, you can write # an IP address and netmask in separate columns to specify the set of hosts. # # METHOD can be "trust", "reject", "md5", "crypt", "password", "gss", "sspi", # "krb5", "ident", "pam" or "ldap". Note that "password" sends passwords # in clear text; "md5" is preferred since it sends encrypted passwords. # # OPTION is the ident map or the name of the PAM service, depending on METHOD. # # Database and user names containing spaces, commas, quotes and other special # characters must be quoted. Quoting one of the keywords "all", "sameuser" or # "samerole" makes the name lose its special character, and just match a # database or username with that name. # # This file is read on server startup and when the postmaster receives # a SIGHUP signal. If you edit the file on a running system, you have # to SIGHUP the postmaster for the changes to take effect. You can use # "pg_ctl reload" to do that. # Put your actual configuration here # ---------------------------------- # # If you want to allow non-local connections, you need to add more # "host" records. In that case you will also need to make PostgreSQL listen # on a non-local interface via the listen_addresses configuration parameter, # or via the -i or -h command line switches. # # DO NOT DISABLE! # If you change this first entry you will need to make sure that the # database # super user can access the database using some other method. # Noninteractive # access to all databases is required during automatic maintenance # (autovacuum, daily cronjob, replication, and similar tasks). # # Database administrative login by UNIX sockets local all postgres ident sameuser # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all ident sameuser # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5 # IPv6 local connections: host all all ::1/128 md5 host all all 192.168.1.101 md5 host all all 192.168.159.1 md5 host all all 192.168.148.1 md5 # connections for all the pcs on the subnet # # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD host all all 192.168.148.0 255.255.255.0 host all all 192.168.159.0 255.255.255.0
The attached pg_hba.conf file does have several mistakes in. Every entry needs a mask or cidr and an auth-method. Pleas see the manual at chapter 21.1 for details about the different formats which are recognized. psql is a command line tool to access a database. Best regards Ivo Am Montag, 9. Juni 2008 23:15:14 schrieb Simone Gadenz: > Shane, > > I attached the pg_hba.conf I have on the server. I can use pgadmin3 when > I connect from the server itself, so I think the pg_hba on the server is > correct. > > From the client machine I cannot connect through pgadmin3. Is there > another way to test connection client server? Has pg a textual client to > send sql statements? > > Thanks a lot > > Simone > > Shane Ambler ha scritto: > > Simone Gadenz wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> this is the problem I am facing. > >> > >> I have PG 8.3 running on a KUBUNTU installation running on a virtual > >> machine. From inside the virtual machine I can use PGADMIN to manage PG > >> but when I try to connect from the xp machine I have this error: "Error > >> connecting to the server:FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file" . > >> > >> I set the permission in the pg_hba.conf on the server. > >> > >> The machine talk each oher, I can ping and use telnet on the 5432 port. > >> > >> The log on the server does not report any problem. > >> > >> Ideas? > > > > If you can telnet then I would say your network and firewall is right > > and the error with pg_hba.conf is where you need to look. > > > > The pg_hba.conf is located in the data dir that you have specified for > > postgresql. Is it there? What entries do you have after all the > > comments? The errornous part would indicate a small syntax error or > > did you edit it on windows with cr/nl characters and copy it across to > > linux?
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Simone Gadenz <s.gadenz@geologyx.it> wrote: > Shane, > > I attached the pg_hba.conf I have on the server. I can use pgadmin3 when I > connect from the server itself, so I think the pg_hba on the server is > correct. No, that just means that this one line: local all postgres ident sameuser is correct. > From the client machine I cannot connect through pgadmin3. Is there another > way to test connection client server? Has pg a textual client to send sql > statements? psql All other comments stand as well, you don't have proper net masks on the entries, and we don't know which ips you're trying to connect from, so...
Simone Gadenz wrote: > Shane, > > I attached the pg_hba.conf I have on the server. I can use pgadmin3 when > I connect from the server itself, so I think the pg_hba on the server is > correct. > > From the client machine I cannot connect through pgadmin3. Is there > another way to test connection client server? Has pg a textual client to > send sql statements? > > Thanks a lot > > Simone > > # connections for all the pcs on the subnet # # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD host all all 192.168.148.0 255.255.255.0 host all all 192.168.159.0 255.255.255.0 try adding the method to the end of these lines. # METHOD can be "trust", "reject", "md5", "crypt", "password", "gss", "sspi", # "krb5", "ident", "pam" or "ldap". Note that "password" sends passwords # in clear text; "md5" is preferred since it sends encrypted passwords. -- Shane Ambler pgSQL (at) Sheeky (dot) Biz Get Sheeky @ http://Sheeky.Biz
Thanks everybody! In fact it was a syntax problem. Now it works fine. Cheers Simone Shane Ambler ha scritto: > Simone Gadenz wrote: >> Shane, >> >> I attached the pg_hba.conf I have on the server. I can use pgadmin3 >> when I connect from the server itself, so I think the pg_hba on the >> server is correct. >> >> From the client machine I cannot connect through pgadmin3. Is there >> another way to test connection client server? Has pg a textual client >> to send sql statements? >> >> Thanks a lot >> >> Simone >> >> > > # connections for all the pcs on the subnet > # > # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD > host all all 192.168.148.0 255.255.255.0 > host all all 192.168.159.0 255.255.255.0 > > > try adding the method to the end of these lines. > > > # METHOD can be "trust", "reject", "md5", "crypt", "password", "gss", > "sspi", > # "krb5", "ident", "pam" or "ldap". Note that "password" sends passwords > # in clear text; "md5" is preferred since it sends encrypted passwords. > > -- Dr. Simone Gadenz via P. Togliatti 69, 50051 Castelfiorentino (FI) +39 339 6053660 *INFORMATIVA PRIVACY (ex D.lgs. 196/03)* Le inormazioni contenute in questo documento e nei relativi allegato possono essere riservate e sono destinate esclusivamente alla persona od alla Società indicata come destinatario. La diffusione e la distribuzione del presente documento a soggetti diversi da quelli indicati, od in genere qualsivoglia utilizzo illecito dei dati ivi contenuti, e proibita sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 del Codice Penale che dal D.Lgs 196/03 in materia di protezione dei dati personali (Privacy). Se avete ricevuto per errore questo documento siete pregati di distruggerlo e di comunicarcelo prontamente tramite e-mail o fax.