Thread: ODBC from MS Access

I’m fairly new to PG.  I’m working on implementing Project-Open, “PO”,  for a non-profit organization; I am a volunteer.

I need to migrate legacy data from MS Access to the PO database (PG) – I’m hoping that I can use Access as the front-end for the migration procedures.  

FYI, I am running Access 2007.

I’ve read some of the PG documentation… 

checked and confirmed that:

posgreSQL.conf contains listen_addresses='*'.

Added a line to pg_hba.conf containing:

host      all      all       myIPaddress        trust

…using ‘postgres’  or ‘projop’  for the database name.

…using ‘postgres’ as the username;  no password

Getting an error message: 'No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.’

Looking for clues in pgAdmin III    -- would be glad to get a little help from you…

Regards,

JPD

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Joseph Doench <jdoench@cinci.rr.com> wrote:


> FYI, I am running Access 2007.
>
> I’ve read some of the PG documentation…
>
> checked and confirmed that:
>
> posgreSQL.conf contains listen_addresses='*'.
>
> Added a line to pg_hba.conf containing:
>
> host      all      all       myIPaddress        trust
>
> …using ‘postgres’  or ‘projop’  for the database name.
>
> …using ‘postgres’ as the username;  no password
>
> Getting an error message: 'No connection could be made because the target
> machine actively refused it.’


Are you able to log in locally using psql with these credentials?



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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:49:39AM -0700, Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Joseph Doench <jdoench@cinci.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> > FYI, I am running Access 2007.
> >
> > I’ve read some of the PG documentation…
> >
> > checked and confirmed that:
> >
> > posgreSQL.conf contains listen_addresses='*'.
> >
> > Added a line to pg_hba.conf containing:
> >
> > host      all      all       myIPaddress        trust
> >
> > …using ‘postgres’  or ‘projop’  for the database name.
> >
> > …using ‘postgres’ as the username;  no password
> >
> > Getting an error message: 'No connection could be made because the target
> > machine actively refused it.’
>
>
> Are you able to log in locally using psql with these credentials?

And did you restart the postmaster after adding the lines to
pg_hba.conf? Also, realize that the first line in pg_hba.conf that
matches your access attempt is the one that matters: if you tacked that
on at the end, there's likely an earlier line that's rejecting you.

Ross
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