FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Scott Edwards
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:20 PM
> 
> I'm attempting to use a MSSQL database from Perl on a FreeBSD
> machine. I've installed FreeTDS and DBD::Sybase.
> 
> DBI->connect is returning undef and $DBI::errstr is a literal "no
> error string" after I attempt to connect to a mssql server.

Failure to connect is either failure to find the server or failure to
authenticate, probably the former.  

One guess: you're using 
        "/usr/local/etc/freetds/freetds.conf".  

The default location for that file is 
        "/usr/local/etc/freetds.conf".  

Unless you changed the default at configure time, FreeTDS is not reading
your freetds.conf.  

If that's not the problem, I suggest you try TDSDUMP and TDSDUMPCONFIG
to make sure your file is being read, and to see what response is coming
back from the server.  

HTH.  

--jkl

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