Re: Can't connect using Win95 client

Greetings,

Thanks much for the suggestion - it put me on the right track.

Adding the hosts file, and rebooting had no effect. But, Bob
guessed that it was some sort of host resolution problem.
So I edited the code from '192.168.1.160' to 'blah.xyz.com',
forcing the Win95 box to hit our local DNS server, and it
connected fine. Weird. Even weirder - the mail client (mozilla)
on this same box is pointed by IP address to our mail server -
and it works fine. So is it a Win95 TCP/IP problem? Hmm...

Thanks for your time - I'd love a solution, but I'll settle
for a fix, and you got me there.

Regards,

Chris



> 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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