FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Abhilash_Shanmugham [mailto:Abhilash_Shanmugham AT Satyam.com]
> Sent: August 19, 2002 8:49 AM
>
>  I have MS SQL 2000 running on my network 
> and I have freetds installed in RedHat 7.2 System 
> if I try 
> [root@localhost bin]# ./tsql -Sccr3mcg109 -H172.18.57.40 
> -p1433 -Usa -Pgnu
>  I am able to connect and able to query 
> well now if i try with the host name 
> 
> [root@localhost bin]# ./tsql -Sccr3mcg109 -Usa -Pgnu
> Unknown marker: 0!!
> There was a problem connecting to the server
> 
> My entry in the /usr/local/freetds/
>   [ccr3mcg109]
>       host=172.18.57.40 
>       port = 1433
>       tds version = 7.0
>       try domain logins = no
>       try server logins = yes
>       nt domain = ccr
> 
> I looked up the /tmp/freetds.log
> 
> 2002-08-19 12:19:47 Connecting addr 172.18.57.40 port 1433
> 2002-08-19 12:19:47 inside tds_process_login_tokens()
> 2002-08-19 12:19:47 inside tds_process_default_tokens() marker is 0
> 
> Can you tell me where I have made a mistake in the 
> freetds.conf file entry .

Abhilash, 

The good news is, tsql was designed for just this kind of diagnostic
purpose.  The bad news is, I don't see anything wrong with your
FreeTDS.conf.  

You might want to try TDSDUMPCONFIG, to make sure FreeTDS is reading the
file you think it is.  

To be clear, the syntax should be either:

        tsql -H172.18.57.40 -p1433 -Usa -Pgnu
or
        tsql -Sccr3mcg109 -Usa -Pgnu

As Frediano points out, you really only need this in your freetds.conf to
describe your server:

>   [ccr3mcg109]
>       host=172.18.57.40 
>       port = 1433
>       tds version = 7.0

The rest are esoterica whose defaults are fine for a normal login.  

Since I don't have any real advice, I'll ask a few questions....

Does the situation change if you use a hostname instead of an address?  

Are you using any FreeTDS environment variables?   Does setting TDSVER=7.0
help?  

For the record, what's the date of your snapshot?

What arguments did you pass to the configure script?  

HTH.

--jkl


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