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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Domain Login Support, connecting to MSSQL issue
  • Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:07:12 -0400

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:35:19 -0500, Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>
wrote:
> FreeTDS does not currently implement support for Named Pipe-based SQL
> connections -- that is, connections transported over the DCE/RPC
> interface, which uses tcp port 139, 445, or 135 on Windows machines
> depending on the type of encapsulation used for DCE/RPC itself.
> Supporting this would require a fairly extensive DCE/RPC library for
> Unix (such as the one built into Samba, which is licensed under the GPL
> and therefore not generally considered usable by most other projects
> aiming to produce libraries).

I took the liberty of updating the UG based on today's discussion, quoting
some of what what said. If you want attribution or to make a correction
or whatever, please let me know. One rendered copy can be found at:

http://www.schemamania.org/projects/freetds/build/doc/userguide/x1369.htm

--jkl




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