Received: from field.videotron.net (field.videotron.net [205.151.222.108]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBCEb3m77280 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:37:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sylvain@remax-quebec.com) Received: from pc20001 ([207.96.182.253]) by field.videotron.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.12.14.10.29.p8) with SMTP id <0G5G00DHJLXXY0@field.videotron.net> for pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:37:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:37:27 -0500 From: Sylvain Barrette Subject: RE: Error connecting to database In-reply-to: To: Andreas Brunner , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Archive-Number: 200012/84 X-Sequence-Number: 424 Did you start postgres with the -i switch ??? -----Message d'origine----- De : pgsql-interfaces-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-interfaces-owner@postgresql.org]De la part de Andreas Brunner Envoyé : Tuesday, December 05, 2000 5:12 AM Ā : pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Objet : [INTERFACES] Error connecting to database hello, hereīs my system configuration: host os: Suse Linux 6.2 postgres version: 6.4 client os: Windows NT 4.0 SP 5 client application: MS Access 97 odbc driver version: 6.50.00.00 The problem: when i attempt to connect to database, and i give a username and password (both existing), i get the error message [authentication failed]. if i donīt give any username or password, i donīt get any errormessage, but then nothing happens, so i am also not connected to the database, although i donīt recieve any errormessage. iīve sent you also 2 log-files, one (325) containing the try with username and password, the other (299) without. i also sent you my pg_hba.conf, the one from the path, where my testdb is installed. i hope you can help me somehow. bye andreas mailto: andreas.brunner@rubner.com