Neon Local Connect Issue: Password Authentication Failed
Hello! I've got Neon Local Connect Extension set up through Cursor, and I am running the Docker container through Docker Desktop on Windows. Even though the container is running and the extension window shows that it is connected to the correct branch, I do not see anything populated in the schema visualizer. Moreover, when I attempt to check the connection through powershell I get the following error: psql: error: connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "neon"
I have tried a few different methods of the command as you can see in the screenshot, with and without ssl, but the error remains the same each time.
4 Replies
correct-apricotOP•4w ago
Interestingly the connection seems to work if I execute the command from a terminal within docker desktop
correct-apricotOP•4w ago
confirmed this is just an issue running in windows, running cursor and all commands through WSL works fine
metropolitan-bronze•4w ago
@Foxblush thanks for following up - is it something specific to running Neon Local Connect in Windows? Should we add a note to docs?
correct-apricotOP•4w ago
it seems to be, haven't yet figured out what might be the underlying issue when running NLC in windows, but I definitely know it wasn't just a Cursor issue. any powershell I tried to execute a psql connect would fail with the same issue. when I saw the Docker terminal worked, I tried it in a WSL terminal outside docker, which worked as well. so I loaded up Cursor in WSL and found that it worked fine. even did a drizzle-kit push with it. and schema visualization is working in the extension window.