FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: David Garcia Cervetti [mailto:dcervetti AT yahoo.com]
> Sent: November 12, 2003 2:41 PM
> 
> I installed unixODBC version 2.2.6 and FreeTDS 0.62.
> I'm trying to connect from a Linux box to a Microsoft
> SQL 2000 Database Server. The installation of both
> (unixODBC and FreeTDS) went fine. The tsql command
> works fine also. The isql command throughs an error:
> 
> $ isql -v MyServer2000 bnmanifests barnes
> [S1000][unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server]Unable to
> connect to data source
> [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect

Let's see your odbc.ini and freetds.conf, and the first 20 lines of a
TDSDUMP log.  

The trick is to make the right entries in those files.  The beginning of the
log tells us where  FreeTDS is trying to connect to, which might not be
where you expect (or want).  

--jkl
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