-t is me.

Well, depending on whether her authentication from OS X PHP to NT PGSQL works. She's at least partly me.

I've changed an hba_conf parameter to "trust" which just strikes me as a big stinky security loophole, but if I don't trust meself, who can I trust?

I remember the title Windows Annoyances as an "oh, snap" moment when I first saw it, but the toad doesn't mean much to me one way or the other.

Has everyone heard about Google's new free in-home wireless broadband service? [link]

Howdy - -t and I decided to stop making her proxy for me

and I have both static DHCP (feels like an oxymoron)

You can call it DHCP with lease reservations if it is less dissonant for you.

For some reason my TiVo doesn't resolve for the XP box, but does for the OSX one

Sometimes windows doesn't append the domain name to host names when looking up names. You can force it to append the domain name by going to the control panel for your NIC, going to TCP/IP properties, going to Advanced, clicking the sDNS tab, and adding your domain name to the search suffixes. Or you could assign that NIC you domain name, and choose the "append primary and connection specific DNS suffixes".

Windows DNS resolver is an odd duck, especially if you are using netbios (which you do not need, btw, unless you have windows machines using win95/98). By default, it tries to resolve names with netbios first (if all it has is a name, and no domain name appended), and by the time it is done trying to do that, the application may have timed out before it even has a chance to try DNS. By disabling netbios, it'll go straight to DNS, and hopefully append the domain name.

WRT the PHP on OSX talking to PostgreSQL on XP, make sure XP's firewall isn't blocking the PostgreSQL listener port. You may need to make an exception for PostGresQL to allow access (it uses tcp port 5432 by default, iirc). That could be it.

OK - just wanted to offer some pennies. You can ping me in email if you want to bounce something off of me.

I have the XP firewall off. I'm connecting now--I couldn't get the password (I had the hba file set first to 'MD5' and then to 'password') to authenticate--looks like 'trust' is bypassing authentication entirely. Finding the postgres log file helped a bit--it was a relief when the connection happened and I was down to the relatively simple password issue.

Sometimes windows doesn't append the domain name to host names when looking up names.

I'm not using a domain name, not on purpose. But I noticed that OS X is appending .socal.rr.com to both hostnames. Win XP has decided to resolve the OS X box, and not the TiVo one. Because it hates me. Went to that tab you mention and entered socal.rr.com, and now it adds it and everything resolves quite neatly.

Thanks for your help! I'd have had my eyes crossed with reading to get myself this far.

Thanks for your help! I'd have had my eyes crossed with reading to get myself this far.

You're welcome - I do have an explanation for the behavior you describe, but I read it after writing it and it kinda bores me even. Chalk it up to the side-effects of Microsoft's relentless drive to preserve backwards compatibility with its old name resolution system.

I'm kinda psyched somebody is using dd_wrt. Its a cool project.

I'm kinda psyched somebody is using dd_wrt. Its a cool project.

I'm a networking lightweight--I usually stick well on the top of the OSI layer. But a friend is a big old Cisco-head, so I was bragging about having (finally) gotten dd-wrt working. He got all sulky that the WRT54GC wasn't big enough to run it (he wants a travel router), but when I showed him all the tabs he started considering buying one of the bigger WRT54s to have some of those options around without using the big iron. Which he has to buy anyway, but why fool around with your expensive stuff?

why fool around with your expensive stuff?

Uh...you do that because you can. Not sure why I even said it. But hopefully my point got across.

Apropos of nothing, a few weeks back, I partially signed up for my free upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Pro. I only partially completed it in that I only ever filled out the info stuff on the web site. I never completed the second part -- which was to fill out a card and send it in with my receipt for my computer (something I didn't actually have).

I have received an email notification that my upgrade is whipping its way to me through the postal system.

I guess the two sides of that weren't connected.

Don't do it!