<div>Hello all i was trying to connect postgis remote database from mapserver, so i included a connection string in the mapfile as </div> <div> </div> <div>CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS <BR>CONNECTION "host=remoteserverhostname user=postgres password=random1 dbname=tes port=5432"<BR>DATA "* from tablename"</div> <div> </div> <div>but this gives me the following errors</div> <div> </div> <div><STRONG>Warning</STRONG>: [MapServer Error]: msPOSTGISLayerOpen(): couldnt make connection to DB with connect string </div> <div>Error reported was 'FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" '. <BR>This error occured when trying to make a connection to the specified postgresql server. <BR></div> <div>I dont know if the connection string is right or not, or do we have to change anything in the configuration file for postgresql .....</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for your time and appreciate it .......</div> <div>kris</div><p>
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