Hi,

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:

Connecting to Muscopedia Database
Connection:
localhost:/mnt/disk/home/mling/muscorian/BioDatabases/muscopedia.fdb:mouse:mouse
<-- default
None <-- actual host (with 'print self.dbhost' where
kinterbasdb.connect(host = self.dbhost,.....)
OperationalError
(-902, 'isc_attach_database: Unable to complete network request to host
"localhost".. Failed to establish a connection.. Connection refused. ')
File "muscorian.py", line 641, in main
result = mosys.run(command)

File "muscorian.py", line 597, in run
elif (command[0] == 'linkmuscopedia'):
self.commandLinkMuscopediaDB(command)

File "muscorian.py", line 129, in commandLinkMuscopediaDB
self.muscopedia = PubMedGrabber.FBUtilities(str(command[1]))

File "abcrawl/PubMedGrabber.py", line 340, in __init__
user = self.dbuser, password = self.dbpwd, charset='UNICODE_FSS')

File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/kinterbasdb/__init__.py", line
470, in connect
return Connection(*args, **keywords_args)

File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/kinterbasdb/__init__.py", line
608, in __init__
self._C_con = _k.attach_db(dsn, dpb, dialect)

Has anyone got any ideas?

Thanks
Maurice





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