pgAdmin3 connection problems

Question

I\'m recently setting up and running a Windows 2008 r2 server with VMware Workstation 8.

I\'m running a Centos 6.2 virtual linux box with Postgresql 9.1. Everything seem

Answer 1

Adding to the great answers above, after implementing all the firewall rules and the configuration file changes, it still wasn't connecting to my host's IP address. Then I realized I had installed pgadmin locally on the host that my postgres db was installed on. I didn't need to use the external IP address for the host, I simply needed to connect to "localhost" in the pgadmin connection process. Extremely frustrating but made sense. So, if you

• host pgadmin from the same server as your postgres database
• have ruled out that the firewall is not in your way
• have ruled out that any security groups are not blocking you
• have fiddled enough with your configuration files pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf

then maybe... just maybe, try connecting to "localhost" or "127.0.0.1".

it's worth a shot right!