This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Elard Vermeulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. hi, I am trying to connect to my server using ODBC version 06.40.0006. everything works fine when i set my pg_hba.conf to: host dbname 195.195.195.195 255.255.255.255 trust but when i change the trust to password it gives me a authentication error, even though the user and password are in the pg_shadow table. when i connect to the database with psql -u everything works fine. Any suggestions? tia Elard Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive ************