I would recommend creating rules in your firewall that let Postgres run and listen on sockets rather than turn off the firewall altogether. (The firewall rules _may_ not be the problem in your case, but you can still try)
On an orthogonal note, I just disliked the UAC in Vista... For the first month or so I tried to cope with it, hoping that I'd get used to it, but it keeps coming in the way so much that I had to finally turn it off... now life's much easier. Best regards, On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this new keyboard has problems, or i can't type ;-) . > > it should be off not of > > Justin wrote: > > > > Dirk Verleysen wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have been running a Postgres (8.2.4) on a Windows XP for over 3 months. > Last week this machine died and I bought a new Vista machine today. > Installed everything on it and a Postgres (8.2.7). The problem is that I > cannot start the Postgres service. I keep getting the following error: > FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets > > > Anyone has any idea what I can do ? > > Thanks, > > Dirk > > turn of the firewall > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmail | hotmail | indiatimes | yahoo }.com EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device