Setting up PT3 on 2 machines

[jetpilot86]

I want to move my settings and layouts from the orignal machine i installed pt3 on to a 2nd machine so they'll be the same on both, without having to build from scratch. For the HUD, created filters and window layouts, etc in the program.

What files do I move? My official guess is the data directory and sub-directories

Thanks,

Jet

[kraada]

Make a backup of your database as directed in this post, and restore on the new machine. You'll also want to bring over copies of the following files: C:\Program Files\PokerTracker 3\Data\Layouts.pt3 (this is your HUD layout), C:\Program Files\PokerTracker 3\Data\StatsDefinitionsCustomized.pt3 (these are your custom stats), and C:\Program Files\PokerTracker 3\Data\Config\Buddies.cfg (this is your buddy list).

[jetpilot86]

I wasn't as clear as I wanted.

I'll be networking and accessing the db on my laptop thru my network on my desktop machine.

I now see that I DON"T need the sql version on my desktop to do this.

I did just copy the DATA folder over and that seems to work ok....

Thanks

Jet

[kraada]

If you've networked the database as explained in this tutorial you don't need to copy any of the postgresql data over just the files in the PT3 directory that I mentioned earlier. All of the PostgreSQL data will come over the network and copying the data folder over would be redundant (as there'd be nothing reading from it).

[jetpilot86]

I can't recall, does the machine that I'm just playing poker on, and just using the postgres Db on the other computer have to have PostgreSQL installed?

Other than that I've followed the how to guide and i get "this server is not responding to connection attempts. Please restart PostgreSQL service, then PokerTracker, and try again."

PT is not running on the machine with the DB on it, but it is installed. DB machine is Win7, Poker Machine is XP.

[kraada]

There needs to be at least one machine with PostgreSQL installed on it. If the database server is not the machine you're using to play poker, then you need to enable the networking features with PostgreSQL so that you can connect elsewhere and make sure that your firewall allows port 5432 to be open. Were you able to follow the above tutorial?

[jetpilot86]

There needs to be at least one machine with PostgreSQL installed on it. If the database server is not the machine you're using to play poker, then you need to enable the networking features with PostgreSQL so that you can connect elsewhere and make sure that your firewall allows port 5432 to be open. Were you able to follow the above tutorial?

I think so, I ended up installing Postgre on both machines so I could operate PT on the non-DB machine while I sort this out vs get stuck in the setup loop.

What I'm doing now is this:
Database/DBManagment/New
entering the ip address of the db computer in server, checking the box for this db exists and browsing db's

Error message i get is "The server is not responding to connection attempts. Please restart the PostgreSQL service, then PT and try again." I've done this with no effect.

Do I need to share a folder where the db is on the db machine?

[kraada]

No but you need to make sure that listen_addresses = '*' in the postgres.conf file on the server that's sharing the database, and that the line in question doesn't start with a #, and you need to make sure your firewall isn't blocking port 5432 on that machine.

[jetpilot86]

No but you need to make sure that listen_addresses = '*' in the postgres.conf file on the server that's sharing the database, and that the line in question doesn't start with a #, and you need to make sure your firewall isn't blocking port 5432 on that machine.

That was set correctly. I did find that on the db machine that the windows firewall was up, i took it down, restarted postgre & PT and now get a new error "Unable to log into database. (template1). Reason: FATAL: Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file." I rechecked the file and it is consistent with the forums recommendations. I also rebooted the db machine and get same message after restarting pt

192.168.1.131 is my ip address on the network

[kraada]

What do you have in your pg_hba.conf file? Please paste all lines in the file that don't start with # here.