FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> Hi there,
> 

Hi

> I´m a total FreeTDS newbie so I hope you won´t mind me asking stupid
> questions :-)
> 
> I have a fresh install of FreeTDS on a SuSE 7.1 box and I want to use
> it via PHP. The PHP part is not the problem however, as I can´t
> connect to a MSSQL 2000 server running on W2K using tsql.
> 
> This is what I type:
> > /usr/local/ftds/bin/tsql -S deepspace1 -p 1433 -U dima
> 

Port is useless, already specified in freetds.conf

....
> 
> In the freetds.conf´s [global] section I have defined the TDS protocol
> version to use as 7.0. Additionally, I have defined a server named
> "deepspace1" like this:
> > [deepspace1]
> > host = 192.168.168.200
> > port = 1433
> > tds version = 7.0
> 
> Because I wasn´t sure if FreeTDS would use freetds.conf or interfaces,
> I´ve created an additional interface file that looks like this:
> > deepspace1
> >  query tcp tds7.0 192.168.168.200 1433
> 

Not needed (also is obsolete retained only for compatibility)

> The interesting question is: Why doesn´t it work this way? I already
> went through any piece of documentation, FAQ and tutorials that I
> could find. The only thing that´s a little special about my setup is
> that the MSSQL server is behind our firewall - but there´s a forwarder
> (which works, I can get through via telnet) that allows our webserver
> to connect to our firewall on port 1433, which routes the connection
> to our internal MSSQL server.
> 

Now I understand why it's called "deep space" :)

Perhaps firewall is opened only for webserver. Try to do a "telnet
192.168.168.200 1433" directly from your Suse box.
Also, are you using 0.60 version, current (CVS), snapshot?
I suggest to use ct library (--with-sybase-ct), althought this can't solve
your problem...

freddy77

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