[Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA

[A J Wilson]

I tried to connect manually using the script suggested below.  The output is
shown below.  I would appreciate if someone could interprete it for me and
advise how I might fix the problem.

Many Thanks
Austin

Python 1.5.1 (#10, Jul 25 1999, 07:21:22)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import ctsybase
>>> c = ctsybase.ctsybase({'user': 'qawila1', 'password': 'figtree',
'server': 'turtle'})
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
SybaseError: ['failed to connect to server', ('client', 4, 84083715,
'ct_connect(): network packet layer:
internal net library error: Specified server name attribute could not be
found', 0, '', 0, 'ZZZZZ')]
>>>

----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Staubo <alex@mop.no>
To: Zope Mailing List (E-mail) <zope@zope.org>; 'A J Wilson'
<ajwilson@ezy.net.au>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 8:31 AM
Subject: RE: [Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA


> Note that ZSybaseDA has a bug that keeps it from publishing errors
> correctly. Check the line number given in the traceback. Verify that you
> login ID has access to the database and table.
>
> You can test this manually thus (replace user name, password, server and
> database with real values):
>
> import ctsybase
> c = ctsybase.ctsybase({'user': 'bob', 'password': 'bob',
> 'server': 'MYSYB'})
> c.execute('use my_database')
>
> which should go through okay if it works, give you a (hopefully)
> human-readable error response if not.
>
> -- Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
> "Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom smashers and a
> beautiful
> girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I
> care
> not who writes the nation's laws." --S. J. Perelman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A J Wilson [mailto:ajwilson@ezy.net.au]
> Sent: 25. juli 1999 22:33
> To: zope@zope.org
> Cc: rossl@med.usyd.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA
>
>
> I have a Sybase database which I can access through isql, MSAccess,
> Sybase Central etc.  When I tried to access it using the ZSybaseDA using
> the connection string in the form [dbusername] [password] [machinename]
> [databasename] I get an error saying "Invalid connection string:".  Any
> other suggestions.
>
> Regards
> Austin
>
>
> >From: rossl@med.usyd.edu.au
> >Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:14:06 -0700
> >To: zope@zope.org
> >Subject: Re:  [Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA
> >
> >try
> >[dbusername] [password] [machinename] [databasename]
> >
> >eg
> >
> >bob bobspass redhat1 zopestuff
> >
> >(Of course, you need to use the sybase utilities to make database
> zopestuff and accessible by bob using bobspass)
> >
>  ><003001bed623$61e130a0$0202a8c-@lalaland.net.au> wrote:
> o>riginal article:http://www.egroups.com/group/zope/?start=8450
> > Hi
> >
> > I managed to compile the ZSybaseDA under Redhat 5.1.  Now I need help
> to connect to the database.  Zope is running on the same machine as
> >Sybase ASE.  Could someone please tell me the format for the Database
> Connection String?