FreeTDS Development Group

["mark floy" <mark.floy AT uhl.nhs.uk>]

I am user of a Mandrake 8.0 system running unixODBC 2.0.8 attempting to
connect through to a MSSQL 6.5 database without any success!

I have instructed unixODBC to use the
'/usr/local/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so' driver. I created a manual entry in
'.odbc.ini' and then tried the connection which resulted in the
following....

[unixPDBC] Could not find database parameter

Could someone out there please point out to me exactly what I must to in
order to get my connection working, ie an example 'odbc.ini' and related
freetds.conf and/or what ever else is required.


The '.odbc.ini' file looks like this..

[dsnDevserverUhl]
Description = tdsodbc
Driver = tdsodbc
Database = uhltestdb
Port = 1433
Server = 999.999.999.999


Thanks in advance,
Mark