FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: James McGowan [mailto:jmcgowan AT luxurylink.com]
> Sent: December 1, 2003 6:43 PM
> 
> I can't get PHP to connect to a local Win2000/MSSQLServer box 
> using the following environment:
> 
> Apache 1.3.27
...
> PHP 4.3.4
> =========
> (./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs 
> --with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds --enable-mssql --enable-debug)
...
> FreeTDS 0.61.2
> ==============
> (./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds --enable-msdblib 
> -with-tdsver=7.0 --enable-dbmfix)
...
> Please note that TSQL works fine! I can connect to and query 
> all hosts listed in freetds.conf. It's PHP that's broken. All 
> I get is the wonderfully verbose message: 
> 
> Warning: mssql_connect(): Unable to connect to server: MSSQL1 
> in /var/www/html/test/include/globals.php on line 116...

Does the TDSDUMP log show you're attempting to connect to the same server
that you successfully connected to with tsql?  Perhaps the server/user name
is not being correctly provided to PHP?  

HTH.

--jkl
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