Error Connecting .. see screenshot

[kevbook]

• Db is a remote DB
• Oplog not allowed on user
• Using the osx compiled version of the app

Not sure what else info could I provide.

[officert]

Could you try opening up the dev console and check and see if there are any errors?

You can open the dev console with cmd-option-i
or go to the View menu > Toggle Developer Tools

[kevbook]

[kevbook]

My me privately, I can share the creds to a sample remote DB you can connect and try it out.
Skype: ksakhuj

[officert]

Only thing I've found for this so far is this:

https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/issues/152

I'll hop on Skype today and try and get those credentials from you so I can investigate some more.

[officert]

Alright so I am able to reproduce this on one of my databases. I now have 2 remote databases, each with authentication. 1 of them works fine, the other I get this error 'database.copy is not a function'.

It's definitely this same issue that is reported here https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/issues/152.

The problem happens when trying to authenticate against the database. In my case the 1rst database is working and is using mongocr for an authentication provider, which is working. The 2nd database is using scram-sha-1 which is not working.

[officert]

Based on mongodb/js-bson#152 this is happening because when running Node inside of Electron the window object is set to the browser window.

[officert]

@kevbook I was able to fix this in this commit:

4988cff

I forked the node bson library and put in a fix, I'm now able to connect the the database I was having problems with.

Do you mind checking and seeing if this clears things up for you? If you don't have all the development stuff setup I can create a new release for you to try out.

[joshmadewell]

I had this same issue with my database at work. I just tested and the issue is now resolved with your commit.

[kevbook]

It works now!!

[officert]

awesome yea so it's definitely an issue with mongo ~2.6 to mongo 3, where they changed the authentication mechanism. The library that the driver uses https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson doesn't play nice with Electron. In Electron the global window object is defined and set to the browser window, which messes up js-bson.