FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Michael Peppler wrote:

> "server" should be a logical database server name, and is looked up in 
> the "interfaces" file.
> 
> It defaults to "SYBASE" or to the value of $ENV{DSQUERY} (assuming the 
> FreeTDS libs have the same behavior as teh Sybase libs in this regard.)
> 

Michael,

FreeTDS has an additional worst case senario that it will attempt to use
the host name and port 1433 for TDS 4.2/7.0 or port 4000 for TDS 5.0.
Many MS SQL people use this method, but it requires the libraries are
configured with --with-tdsver=4.2 (or 7.0) in order to work properly.

Brian