FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Akshay Rao [mailto:Akshay AT crc.ufl.edu]
> Sent: February 26, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: 'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'
> Subject: [freetds] MS SQL Server 2000
> 
> 
> I have a linux box with Apache+PHP (latest of both) and 
> Freetds 0.61. I also
> have a remote SQL 2000 Server that I need to connect to.  Here is the
> problem:  When I try to connect to a remote SQL 7.0 Server 
> with the 7.0 TDS
> protocol, it works just fine.  However when I try to use the 
> 7.0 protocol to
> connect to SQL 2000, it says that the connection couldn't be 
> made.  When
> using the 8.0 protocol, I can't connect to SQL 7.0 or 2000.  
> I think my
> problem lies with the instance name of the SQL 2000 Server.  How do I
> specify the instance to FreeTDS?  Also, when I use the tsql 
> the following is
> my output:
> 
> Msg 10019, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0
> Server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not found!
> There was a problem connecting to the server

We haven't worked out the discovery protocol for named instances in SQL
Server 2000.  You have to know the port number you're connecting to, and
specify them individually in freetds.conf.  

TDS 8.0 won't connect to SQL Server 7.0.  

Does that answer your questions?  

--jkl


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