FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From:  Stephan Herschel
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:43 AM
> 
> Now, when I try to connect with tsql, it does not seem to work:
> sdba@w02:~> tsql -S instr -H db1 -p 2638 -U dba 
> locale is "C" locale
> charset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968" Password:  
> There was a problem connecting to the server
> 
> Unforunately like this I can't much figure out, what the problem
> is. tsql does not tell me, what's happening, what the problem is.
> Or is there a way?

In this case, consult your friendly manual. :-)

$ man tsql | sed -ne'/troubleshooting/,/ignore/p'
man: Formatting manual page...
       The  -H  and  -p parameters are provided especially for
troubleshooting
       new configurations (or servers). Use of these parameters causes
FreeTDS
       to ignore any freetds.conf and environment variables.

and bear in mind:

1. the TDS version is normally taken from freetds.conf
2. for SQL Anywhere, the [dataserver] name must match the name of the
database you're connecting to.
(http://www.freetds.org/userguide/freetdsconf.htm#FTN.AEN801)

HTH.

--jkl

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