Connecting to Firebird database using Kinterbasdb+Python

[Mathias Waack]

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?

Mathias