FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Andrew Schott [mailto:schotty AT wi.rr.com]
> Sent: October 8, 2002 4:38 PM
> 
> It appears that I am using piped connections.  
> How do I do this?  Or am I not even close?

You're quite right, Andrew.  I happen to still have the 6.5 docs installed,
and the default installation listens for named pipe connections only.  In
Books Online, SQL Server Setup, Chapter 3, Network Support, it says:

"By default, SQL Server listens on the standard pipe, \\.\pipe\sql\query,
for named pipe connections. You can change the pipe name. You can also drop
named pipe support and set SQL Server to listen only on other
Net-Libraries."

Your test below is exactly right.  The solution is to add TCP/IP Sockets to
your server set up.  That's something your DBA can do, although he might be
reluctant.  

Regards, 

--jkl

> I use the following:
> [aschott@system11 etc]$ /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -H 
> amerivoice4 -p 1433
> -U saPassword:
> There was a problem connecting to the server
> [aschott@system11 etc]$ telnet amerivoice4 1433
> Trying 206.190.6.248...
> telnet: connect to address 206.190.6.248: Connection refused
> [aschott@system11 etc]$
> 
> So, that is why I feel that the tcp is not right.  On the 
> Windows box next
> to me, I see that in the connection properties in the ODBC manager,
> \amerivoice4\pipe\sql\query as the pipe name, and it is using 
> pipes not tcp/ip.


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