Timeout when calling COM objects on Windows

[Wong Wah Meng-R32813]

Hello there,

I am converting my VB ActiveX application written sometime back in year 2000 with python 1.5.2 to run in python 2.7.1. 

My application is using RMI architecture and I am using a pythonOleRmi.py parser to exchange data/objects between the python and the VB exe. 

I have no issue when my VB EXE is not running as a COM server while making python API calls where my application server is written purely in python and runs on UNIX. However, when my VB EXE is running as a COM server, this code seems hangs when I make the python API same call to the application server. Is there something that I need to change or configure in order to run this successfully? Or to make some security setting on my Windows? (My VB EXE is run on Windows 7 now, will try out if the same issue is encountered on XP next week). 

Is the issue resided in the calling to the local daemon process (10.228.70.137:26000), or it is some security setting depicted in the policy.py file?



Collecting Python Trace Output...
Proxy called with: MatlMgr, getCompatibleFTCSVersions(), (), {}
Dec 23 18:41:21 OleRmiClient     Timeout of 300 seconds occurred on the invocati
on of ('getAppAddress', (u'MatlMgr',), {}) to ('10.228.70.137', 26000)
pythoncom error: Python error invoking COM method.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\genesis\Enablers\Python\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py",
 line 277, in _Invoke_
    return self._invoke_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args)
  File "C:\genesis\Enablers\Python\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py",
 line 282, in _invoke_
    return S_OK, -1, self._invokeex_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args, None, None)
  File "C:\genesis\Enablers\Python\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py",
 line 585, in _invokeex_
    return func(*args)
  File "C:\genesis\Product\Lib\PythonOleRmi.py", line 240, in Proxy
    proxy = self._getProxyObj(pyserverString)
  File "C:\genesis\Product\Lib\PythonOleRmi.py", line 223, in _getProxyObj
    None, self._logWriter, rem_admin_addr = remAddr )
  File "C:\genesis\Product\Lib\EComponent.py", line 710, in __init__
    addr = self._getAppProxyAddress()
  File "C:\genesis\Product\Lib\EComponent.py", line 742, in _getAppProxyAddress
    addr = remAdmin.getAppAddress(self.server_name)
  File "C:\genesis\Product\Lib\EComponent.py", line 611, in __call__
    self._method, args, kw )
  File "C:\genesis\Product\Lib\RMI.py", line 1779, in _genericInvocation
    reply = self._requestReply( replyBit, (method_name, args, kw) )
  File "C:\genesis\Product\Lib\RMI.py", line 1585, in _requestReply
    reply = self._receive()
  File "C:\genesis\Product\Lib\RMI.py", line 1677, in _receive
    raise ServerReplyTimeout( self.reply_timeout)
ServerReplyTimeout: 300


Regards,
Wah Meng