Maurice Ling wrote:

> 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
>

I never got problems with kinterbasdb.
Please make shure that what you try to do works in general.
Use isql to connect with the same params.
Does this work for you?

Uwe