Re: Can't connect using Win95 client

My guess is that the Windows 95 TCP/IP stack isn't figuring out that 
192.168.1.160 is a TCP/IP address instead of a host name. Perhaps you could 
put an entry in your hosts file -- c:\windows\hosts or some such thing -- and 
that might trick the TCP/IP stack into resolving the IP address. You should 
find c:\windows\hosts.sam file, which you can copy to c:\windows\hosts as a 
start if you don't already have one.

I think good practice is to have a localhost entry, so your hosts file should 
have at least the following two entries:

127.0.0.1  localhost
192.168.1.160  foo

where "foo" is an arbitrary name for your PostgreSQL server.

HTH.

.... Bob

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 22:49, Chris Wren wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am having trouble connecting to a FreeBSD PostGreSQL server
> using a Windows 95 client.
>
> The code runs _fine_ on several Win98 clients on the same network.
> The command that breaks is as follows:
>
> _______
>
>  self.db = PgSQL.connect( user = self.uid,  host = self.hostname,
> database = self.dbname, password = self.pwd )
> ________
>
> The error message I get is as follows:
> ______
>
>   File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\pyPgSQL\PgSQL.py", line 2118, in
> connect
>     return Connection(connInfo, client_encoding, unicode_results)
>   File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\pyPgSQL\PgSQL.py", line 2215, in
> __init__
>     raise DatabaseError, m
> libpq.DatabaseError: unknown host name: 192.168.1.160
>
> ________
>
> Here are the relevant software versions:
>
> ________
>
> Client:
> Windows 95
> ActivePython 2.2.2 build 224
> egenix-mx-base-2.0.4.win32-py2.2
> pyPgSQL-2.3.win32-py2.2
> wxPythonWIN32-2.4.0.7-Py22
>
> Server:
> IP: 192.168.1.160
> FreeBSD 4.7
> postgresql-7.2.1_1
>
> __________
>
> The Win 95 box seems to have good network connectivity,
> at least it happily accesses a SAMBA server running on the
> same FreeBSD box as the database.
>
> Any clues are, as always, much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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