Thanks, it was a bind problem: socket.gethostname() returns 'localhost' where '' is was was needed.
Regards, Philippe On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:02:13 -0800, Kartic wrote: > > Philippe C. Martin wrote: >> >> My problem is that I cannot connect to my server if the client is > not on >> >> the same PC (although I'm doing the above). > > > Does the machine running the server code also have a firewall installed > that blocks access to the server port from outside? That is the only > possibility I can think of that prevents a non-local client from > connecting. > > Also, please do a netstat -a on the machine running the server and see > the IP addresses to which the listening port is bound. > > Thanks, > -Kartic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list