FreeTDS Development Group

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> To be very clear: the "name in the square brackets" *is* the servername.
> For some reason known only to Sybase, ASA [mis]interprets the login packet.
> Every other TDS 5.0 server recognizes lservname as the servername, but ASA
> expects it to be the database name.  What you did is make the servername the
> same as the database name.
>
> As things stand, you need a separate entry in freetds.conf for every ASA
> database.  I suppose that's OK, but I think it would be nearly as easy to
> fix as to document and support the current situation.  I don't have ASA
> available though, so I'd need a guinnea pig.

If you fix it in the current "stable" freetds-0.53-7.deb package i.e. in a form that does not need new libs, I will gladly test it for you - it is a production machine, therefore I do not dare to go unstable (my unix knowledge is not that well).

Thanks for your help once more,

Greetings,

Marco