Hello everyone,
We have a linux server (Fedora core 7, default install, firewall turned off) and a bunch of windows XP machines on network/domain.
All machines are visible and I can get to both windows and linux by various methods.
We are trying to resolve a problem of not being able to connect to the linux box from the xp machines using python XMLRPC. (This is the module used in the software I am trying to set up)
Python is at 2.4 and 2.5 on windows machines and 2.5 on Linux.
Using this sample code from
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/81549/index_txt
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# Server code
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import SimpleXMLRPCServer
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class StringFunctions:
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def __init__(self):
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# Make all of the Python string functions available through
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# python_string.func_name
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import string
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self.python_string = string
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def _privateFunction(self):
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# This function cannot be called through XML-RPC because it
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# starts with an '_'
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pass
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def chop_in_half(self, astr):
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return astr[:len(astr)/2]
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def repeat(self, astr, times):
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return astr * times
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server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
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server.register_instance(StringFunctions())
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server.register_function(lambda astr: '_' + astr, '_string')
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server.serve_forever()
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# Client code
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import xmlrpclib
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server = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:8000')
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print server.chop_in_half('I am a confidant guy')
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print server.repeat('Repetition is the key to learning!\n', 5)
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print server._string('<= underscore')
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print server.python_string.join(['I', 'like it!'], " don't ")
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print server._privateFunction() # Will throw an exception
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I can get XP machines to talk to each other and if I run it on the linux server it connects to itself, but if I try and get XP->Linux or Linux->XP I get connection errors such as
socket.error: (10061, 'connection refused')
or
socket.error: (10060, 'Operation timed out')
If I try and run the server on a port on the linux box and then from xp try to telnet to it, I get
Connecting To Linux-Server...Could not open connection to the host, on port 55670: Connect failed
But if I try to telnet from XP to the server running on a port on another XP machine, I can connect and when I type garbage I get a response, in the form of an error and the server prints out what I typed..
eg response = Message: Bad request syntax ('ssdsadsdasdasdasdasdasdasd')
server message = <my computer> - - [30/Oct/2007 17:06:50] code 400, message Bad request syntax ('ssdsadsdasdasdasdasdasdasd')
So what I need help with is what is going on with the connection between the two different operating systems? Is there anything I can try/read/look at to get this stuff working, as we/I am really stumped here.
I hope I have explained this properly, and someone out there can help.
Getafixx
