Mathias Waack wrote: > Maurice LING wrote: > > >>I've been using FB1.5 and access the database using Kinterbasdb + >>Python. My connection is established using kinterbasdb.connect() method >>and the parameters host, dns, database, user, password are all defaulted >>to 'None'. >> >>On my own machine running Mac OSX 10.3, I can connect using the following: >>host = 'localhost' >>database = '<my path to FB database>' >>user = '<user>' >>password = '<password>' >> >>At the same time, I can also connect if I set host=None on my machine. >> >>However, I cannot use 'localhost' on a shared Linux machine (not >>allowed. Don't ask why, system admin's mandate. And the Linux machine is >>without inetd). So when I set host=None, I get this error: > > > Just for my understanding: if you start your script on the machine hosting > the DB you're able to connect. If you start it on a different machine, you > are not able to connect without giving a hostname? Whats wrong with > offering the the name (or IP-address) of your MacOS-box instead of > 'localhost' to the script? >
Hi Mathias, What I am trying to do is "port" a workable program from my own machine (Mac OSX) to a larger machine (Linux). So, the DB and the program are also on the same Linux machine. On the Linux machine, I cannot use localhost, so I set host parameter in kinterbasdb.connect() method to None, which is the default kinterbasdb uses. On Linux machine, I get the error as posted. On my Mac OSX machine, initiating host parameter to 'localhost' or None has no difference, it works. Thanks and cheers Maurice -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
