FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

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