Unable to connect PostgreSQL to remote database using pgAdmin

Question

I installed PostgreSQL on my local server (Ubuntu) with IP 192.168.1.10. Now, I\'m trying to access the database from my client machine (Ubuntu) with IP 192.168.1.11 with p

Answer 1

If you're using PostgreSQL 8 or above, you may need to modify the listen_addresses setting in /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf.

Try adding the line:

listen_addresses = *

which will tell PostgreSQL to listen for connections on all network interfaces.

If not explicitly set, this setting defaults to localhost which means it will only accept connections from the same machine.