FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <james.k.lowden AT alliancebernstein.com>]

> From: Matt Kurtis
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:09 PM
> 
> I installed FreeTDS and it didn't give me any errors on installation,
> so I guess it installed right.  When I try to tsql -S JDBC -U guest
> -P sybase it gives me
> 
>       locale is "en_US.UTF-8" locale charset is "UTF-8" 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
> 
> so I must have done something wrong.  Any ideas on what the problem
> is?

If you're trying to connect to the public JDBC server provided by iirc
Sybase, it's no longer in service:

        $ telnet 192.138.151.39  4444
        Trying 192.138.151.39...
        [timeout]

Try connecting to your own server instead. 

HTH.

--jkl

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