Hennie, You should add this line to your pg_hba.conf file: host all all 198.54.80.26/32 md5 I think this file will probably be in (on Debian): /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/ Where 8.2 is your postgresql version number. DW >psql: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "198.54.80.26", user >"postgres", database "evergreen", SSL off >opensrf at leo:/openils/conf$