FreeTDS Development Group

[Victor Tsang <victor.tsang AT ieee.org>]

Hi,

I try to use FreeTDS 0.5 dblib in Apple Darwin (FYI, Darwin is the base of 
Apple's
MacOS X which is port from BSD 4.4) to connect to MSSQL 7.

Here is the parameters I used in the configuration:
  ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-bsd --with-tdsver=7.0 --enable-msdblib

My test program failed upon dbopen() with "Unknown marker 0!!" error message. 
In my NT
box, the SQLTrace catch an error "Error: 17832, Severity 18, State: 6..." 
saying that
the login packet is invalid.

However, if I configure the freetds --with-tdsver=4.2 instead of 7.0, the 
test program
works fine... but the server is SQL7, and the freetds doc said it is not 
supposed to
work.

I don't think it is my config error (I noticed some #ifdef freeBSD stuff in 
tds code),
otherwise, tds 4.2 should be very likely failed to work. Does it already have 
a patch
on this issue (inside CVS)? Or the TDS 7.0 protocol is still under hacking?


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Victor Tsang

victor.tsang AT ieee.org
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