[R-sig-DB] [R] RODBC Error Code 202 on Mac OS X 10.6
juii@@j@cobso@ m@iii@g oii @rcor@de
juii@@j@cobso@ m@iii@g oii @rcor@de
Tue May 29 18:58:44 CEST 2012
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Von: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902 using gmail.com>
An: julia.jacobson using arcor.de
Datum: 28.05.2012 02:18
Betreff: Re: [R-sig-DB] [R] RODBC Error Code 202 on Mac OS X 10.6
> I cannot help you if this really is a Mac issue, but the error message
> sounds to me like your server is not configured to accept connections
> from your client. When you say it works with a different OS, do you mean
> on the same machine, or do you mean on a machine with a different IP
> address? If the latter, then be sure the server has the same
> permissions for the two machines, then check that the odbc.ini files
> have the same UserName and Password settings, just in case that is
> really what is being used, rather than the strings in the command line.
> You should also be sure the host server setting is the same on both
> machines, just in case you happen to be talking to different servers.
>
> (I do realize that you probably know this, but it is surprisingly
> difficult to get these right, and the error message you get when they
> are wrong is the one you are getting.)
>
> Another thing you can do is to run the server in debug mode, which
> sometimes gives better details about attempted connection failures.
>
> Paul
>
> On 12-05-27 03:39 PM, julia.jacobson using arcor.de wrote:
> >>> Hello everybody out there using the RODBC package,
> >>>
> >>> On my linux (unixODBC) and windows machines, I can successfully use the
> >> RODBC package to connect to a PostgreSQL databse.
> >>> On my Mac Book running Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel 64bit architecture), I get
> the
> >> error "code 202" and message "?????" when I try to establish an
> connection
> >> by using
> >>>> con<- odbcConnect(dsn="MyDataSource",UID="Me",pwd="secret")
> >>> Could anyone please hint me towards additional diagnostics I can run to
> >> pin down the problem?
> >>> I have the latest versions of unixODBC and psqlODBC installed from
> >> Macports.
> >>> They seem to be okay, because
> >>> $isql dsn uid pwd
> >>> works fine to connect to the database.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance for your help,
> >>> Julia
> >
> >> Unfortunately, I'm not really making any progresses, despite a lot of
> >> effort.
> >> I've compiled R on Mac OS X for myself using MacPorts and the error is
> now
> >> "state 28000, code 201" which is failed password authentification.
> >
> > Interestingly, I was able to set up RODBC on Mac OS X 10.4 (PowerPC
> architecture) successfully and as I said, it does work on Linux and Windows
> XP/7 perfectly.
> > I was wondering whether the undecipherable error message I get on OS X
> 10.6 is due to wrong encoding settings on my machine in relation to the ones
> on the server. It would already be of great help to be able to read the
> error message.
> > It is probably a problem of the versions of the OS, psqlODBC, R and RODBC
> on my machine.
> > It would be great to get feedback from someone running Mac OS X 10.6 in
> combination with RODBC successfully and check for the differences with my
> setup.
> >
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