[freetds] Freetds connection problem

James K. Lowden jklowden at freetds.org
Fri Nov 21 17:46:21 EST 2008


Franck Y wrote:
> 
> First i am running SQL server 2005.
> 
> 1) i did a telnet 1433 on my server and it work correclty so my
> problem is not a firewall related problem.
> 
> 2)In SQL server 2005 the server name is "MYSERVER\SL"
> 
> I created a file under /etc/freetds.conf
> 
> like this
> 
> -----
> [MS1]
> 	host = 192.168.10.50
> 	port = 1433
> 	tds version = 7.0
> 

I think you want something more like:

[MS1]
	host = MYSERVER
	instance = SL
	tds version = 7.0

Cf. "man freetds.conf" in the 0.82 distribution or later.  

HTH.  

--jkl


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