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rpc Win32/Irix contentions?

Sean Dunn sdunn at digitalanvil.com
Tue Mar 14 19:47:52 EST 2000 
Pythoneers...

I am using the rpc module from Demos/ to communicate between a client
and multiple servers in Irix.  Things work fine (cPickle'ing data
structures into strings that are sent back and forth) but I'm trying to
get the same rpc module to work on Windows2000 now.

It seems that I can only run an rpc server on windows if I create it on
'localhost' and not '' (The '' works fine for unix as it's the default
interface 0.0.0.0).  THEN, I can only make a connection to it if I run
the client test on the same Win2k machine, and ONLY if connect to it as
'localhost'.  All I am using to test this right now is rpc.testsvr() and
rpc.testclt() in the Demo/rpc.py module.  I'm thinking it might be a
Windows security issue, but I can't find anything for the RPC service
that would stop it from accepting connections on things besides
localhost.  This is frustrating!!  I get a "Connection Refused" error in
Irix when I try to connect to the windows machine.  Then I get a
"Connection Reset" error code from Winsock if I try to connect to the
server (on the same machine) using the machine's DNS name...  It works
ok if I connect to 'localhost'.

Any help or speculations would be greatly appreciated.

Sean

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Sean Dunn
Digital Anvil
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