FreeTDS Development Group

[lisa yang <yang_wayne AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks for your reply. I am still a little bit confused by how to let freetds 
use freetds.conf instead of bypassing it.
 
Since We used XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/) for our Apach, PHP, 
MySQL setting, which has FreeTDS installed and configured by default. I don't 
know why there is no TDSDUMP log file (I have run $ export 
TDSDUMP=/etc/freetds.log
) and why $ export FREETDSCONF=/etc/freetds.conf doesn't work.
 
I would like to know 
1. How to make freeTDS use freetds.conf instead of bypassing it?
2. If in my PHP code, 
mssql_connect ("domainName:1433", "sa", "XXXXX"); 

If successfully connected to MS SQL 2000 and successfully selected the tables 
I wanted, do I really need to care about freetds used freetds.conf or not? 
 
Thanks,
 
Lisa


"Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com> wrote:
> From: lisa yang
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:17 PM
> 
> 1. Works = connected to MS SQL 2000 successfully.
> $ ./tsql -H XXX.XX.XX.XX -p 1433 -U sa
> Password:
> Msg 5703, Level 0, State 1, Server MyMSServer, Line 0
> Changed language setting to us_english.
> 1>
> 
> 2. Doesn't work = failed to connect to MS SQL server
> $ ./tsql -S domainName -U sa
> Password:
> src/tds/login.c: tds_connect: XXX.XX.XX.XX:4000: Connection refused
> Msg 20009, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0
> Server is unavailable or does not exist.
> There was a problem connecting to the server

OK, that's very clear, thanks. This line tells the story:

> src/tds/login.c: tds_connect: XXX.XX.XX.XX:4000: Connection refused

Port 4000 is the compiled-in default for TDS 5.0. The reason FreeTDS is
trying port 4000 is that it's not reading your freetds.conf (or the
[domainName] server section doesn't have a 'port' entry). 

Unless you used the --prefix= option to the configure script, FreeTDS
will look for your file in /usr/local/etc/freetds.conf. It will also
check ${HOME}/.freetds.conf (which might help you in testing, but
probably not so good for your PHP server). 

You can get a very verbose report of the search for freetds.conf by
setting the TDSDUMPCONFIG environment variable. 

> 3. connected to MS SQL successfully if 
> 
> $ export TDSPORT=1433
> $ ./tsql -S domainName -U sa
> Password:
> Msg 5703, Level 0, State 1, Server MyMSServer, Line 0
> Changed language setting to us_english.

I think the reason this worked is that "nslookup domainName" returns a
valid address. The freetds.conf isn't being used, and you've overridden
the default port with TDSPORT. 

HTH.

--jkl


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