--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Uwe Grauer
<mailinglists@o...> wrote:

> 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

Hi Uwe,

Yes, it works in general. It works with isql using the same
parameters. When I've made the changes on my script, I can still run
it perfectly on my Mac OSX but gave me that error when I run it on Linux.

The Linux machine does not have inetd installed, if that helps.

Thanks
Maurice