FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Hi Mark,

a couple of things...

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, mark floy wrote:

> 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....
> 
> The '.odbc.ini' file looks like this..
> 
> [dsnDevserverUhl]
> Description = tdsodbc
> Driver = tdsodbc
> Database = uhltestdb
> Port = 1433
> Server = 999.999.999.999

This should be 'Servername = 999.999.999.999' and the 9s should actually
be the symbolic name you've assigned in either the freetds.conf or
interfaces file.

Secondly, try using the full path to the library in the 'Driver =' line,
you say you do up above so this might just be a transcription thing.

> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
> 

Cheers,

Brian