Connecting to Firebird database using Kinterbasdb+Python

[Maurice LING]

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