FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: age85 AT gmx.de
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:51 AM
> 
> i try to access an MS SQL Server 2000 database with the latest
> stable freetds release. I've configured and installed freetds with
> the following commandline parameters --with-unixodbc=/usr/local
> and --with-tdsver=8.0 everything ends fine. Then I've configured
> the SQL Server to use the SQL Server and Windows Authentication.
> But if I try:
> 
> tsql -H 192.168.100.166 -p 1272 -U Administrator
> 
> im getting the password prompt, after entering the password im
> getting:
> 
> Msg 20020, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0 Unknown
> marker Msg 20014, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0 Login
> incorrect.  There was a problem connecting to the server
> 
> I also tried:  tsql -S myserver -U Administrator
> 
> with the following in freetds.conf:
> 
> [myserver]
> host = 192.168.100.166
> port = 1272
> tds version = 8.0
> 
> But getting the same error message (after password entering).

"Unknown Marker" normally means  you're using the wrong TDS protocol
version (5.0 when you want 8.0, say).  But you seem to have done
everything correctly.  

Try setting the TDSDUMP envrironment variable and look at the log.  It
should tell you what server it's *really* connecting to and what TDS
version it's using.  If it's not 8.0, maybe your freetds.conf file isn't
in the right place?  

Long shot: if 1272 isn't the right port, maybe there's another tcp
server, not SQL Server, that is replying with a non-TDS message.  

HTH.  

--jkl

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