FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Yes, but what you have to do depends on the version you run.

Specifically you must run 5.0.03 or higher.  If running version 5.x you
must run the "OpenServer Gateway" on the Novell server (it comes with 
SQL Any).  Somewhere after 5.x (version 6.0 i think but definately 
by version 7) Sybase made TDS support native, so this is not necessary.

In any event you must use TDS version 5.0, I have been unable to get 4.2
to work (I don't know if 4.2 is intended to work or not).

jkl, can we get this Q added to the FAQ?

Brian

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Ian Harding wrote:

> I have been using freetds with AOLServer successfully against MSSQL Server
> 7.0.  Howerver, I now need to connect to a Sybase SQL Anywhere database
> and can't seem to make it work.  I am running NetBSD 1.5 and the SQL
> Anywhere datbase is on a Novell server.  The windows clients that are
> connecting to the database via odbc are using
> 
> "C:\program files\sqlany50\win32\dbclient.exe" envision -x
> tcpip{host=192.168.100.1}
> 
> as a connect string where 'envision' is the name of the database.  
> 
> Is it possible to connect to SQL Anywhere using freetds?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ian
>