FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Akshay Rao [mailto:Akshay AT crc.ufl.edu]
> Sent: February 27, 2003 10:39 AM
> 
> So I assume that my freetds.conf file should look something like this:
> 
> [SQL2K]
>       host = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>       port = XXXX
>       tds  = 8.0
> 
> Is that correct?  

"SQL2K" would be the servername, the name your application uses to connect
to the named instance.  For people who have several instances on one
machine, sanity might best be preserved if the freetds.conf servername
corresponds to the server's instance name.  

"host" should be the DNS hostname of the machine running "SQL2K".  Don't use
the address; let DNS do its job.  

"port" would be the port where the named instance is listening.  

TDS version 7.0 or 8.0 should work.  No reason not to use 8.0 that I know
of.  

> I also read about some options such as "try domain login",
> "try server login", "nt domain", and "emulate little endian". 
>  Should I be
> concerned with these options?

One (and only one) of either "try domain login" or "try server login" must
be "yes".  If the login is defined in SQL Server, use "try server login".
If the login is defined in the NT domain, use "try domain login".  

I'm not aware of any outstanding Endian issues.  AFAIK, even big endian
clients don't need "emulate little endian" anymore.  

--jkl


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