FreeTDS Development Group

["Devinder Singh" <devinbhullar AT gmail.com>]

Hi Igor

ok can u tell me the steps to connenesc to MSSQL

i just need Freetds.tar ball and i want unix ODBC

then i extract the file and use

.configure --with-tdsvr8.0

when i did that and ran tsql -C

i still get TDS version 5.0


2008/5/10 Igor <igorhmm AT gmail.com>:

> Hi Devinder,
>
> This isn't a problem...
>
> 'tsql -C' display the default TDS version.. but you can change on
> freetds.conf
>
> Regards,
>
> Igor
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Devinder Singh <devinbhullar AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I cant seem to connect to MSSQL using FreeTDS
> >
> > It it becuase i didnt specify the version number
> >
> > i did
> >
> > freetds-0.64#.configure
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > I didnt not specifc the version 8.0
> >
> > when i ran tsql -C
> >
> > i get TDS version 5.0
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2008/5/10 Igor <igorhmm AT gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hi Igor :-)
> >>
> >> Sorry about this mistake... installing and deinstalling freetds
> >> version's I leave freeTDS running without unixODBC :-(
> >>
> >> I got freetds from cvs, make and install... configure with IP address
> >> and now is everything working fine!! ;-)
> >>
> >> Thanks all for the help and sorry about anything...
> >>
> >> Igor
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot AT earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >> > Igor,
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> >>From: Igor <igorhmm AT gmail.com>
> >> >>Sent: May 9, 2008 6:46 PM
> >> >>To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> >> >>Subject: Re: [freetds] Problems with isql
> >> >>
> >> >>Hi James,
> >> >>
> >> >>I'm trying with CVS version and now the IP address is accepted fine..
> >> >>but doesn't connect :-(
> >> >>
> >> >>Check full log:
> >> >>
> >> >>[root@bsd ~/free/freetds/src/apps]# ./tsql -C
> >> >>Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script)
> >> >>                            Version: freetds v0.83.dev.20080509
> >> >>             freetds.conf directory: /usr/local/etc
> >> >>     MS db-lib source compatibility: no
> >> >>        Sybase binary compatibility: no
> >> >>                      Thread safety: yes
> >> >>                      iconv library: no
> >> >>                        TDS version: 5.0
> >> >>                              iODBC: no
> >> >>                           unixodbc: no
> >> >>[root@bsd ~/free/freetds/src/apps]# ./tsql -S 192.168.1.21 -U $DBUSER
> -P
> >> $DBPASS
> >> >>locale is "C"
> >> >>locale charset is "US-ASCII"
> >> >>1>
> >> >>[root@bsd ~/free/freetds/src/apps]# TDSDUMP=dump ./osql -S LekkusLOJA
> >> >>-U $DBUSER -P $DBPASS
> >> >>looking for odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini in /usr/local/etc
> >> >>       reading "/root/.odbc.ini"
> >> >>[LekkusLOJA] not found in "/root/.odbc.ini"
> >> >>       reading "/usr/local/etc/odbc.ini"
> >> >>[LekkusLOJA] found in "/usr/local/etc/odbc.ini"
> >> >>found this section:
> >> >>       [LekkusLOJA]
> >> >>       Description = Lekkus LOJA
> >> >>       Driver = FreeTDS
> >> >>       Trace = No
> >> >>       Server = 192.168.1.21
> >> >>       Port = 1401
> >> >>       TDS_version = 8.0
> >> >>       Database = Lekkus
> >> >>
> >> >>looking for driver for DSN [LekkusLOJA]
> >> >>driver "FreeTDS" found for [LekkusLOJA] in odbc.ini
> >> >>found driver named "FreeTDS"
> >> >>FreeTDS is not a readable file
> >> >>looking for entry named [FreeTDS] in /usr/local/etc/odbcinst.ini
> >> >>driver "/usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so" found for [FreeTDS] in
> odbcinst.ini
> >> >>/usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so is a readable file
> >> >>"Server" found, not using freetds.conf
> >> >>Server is "192.168.1.21"
> >> >>looking up hostname for ip address 192.168.1.21
> >> >>bzbraziline has address 192.168.1.21
> >> >>
> >> >>                           DSN:        LekkusLOJA
> >> >>                        Driver:        /usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so
> >> >>             Server's hostname:        bzbraziline
> >> >>                       Address:        192.168.1.21
> >> >>
> >> >>Attempting connection as lekkus ...
> >> >>+ exec isql LekkusLOJA lekkus *********** -v
> >> >>[S1000][unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server]Unable to connect to data source
> >> >>[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
> >> >>[root@bsd ~/free/freetds/src/apps]# cat dump
> >> >>util.c:292:Starting log file for FreeTDS 0.65.dev.20061107
> >> >>       on 2008-05-09 19:42:28 with debug flags 0x4fff.
> >> >>iconv.c:78:Using trivial iconv
> >> >>iconv.c:195:names for ISO-8859-1: ISO-8859-1
> >> >>iconv.c:195:names for UTF-8: UTF-8
> >> >>iconv.c:195:names for UCS-2LE: UCS-2LE
> >> >>iconv.c:195:names for UCS-2BE: (null)
> >> >>iconv.c:361:iconv to convert client-side data to the "ISO-8859-1"
> >> character set
> >> >>iconv.c:514:tds_iconv_info_init: converting "ISO-8859-1"->"UCS-2LE"
> >> >>login.c:226:IP address pointer is empty
> >> >>login.c:228:Server SYBASE not found!
> >> >                    ^^^^^^
> >> >
> >> > Apparently you are connecting to the Sybase server and not MS one.
> >> > How did you configure freeTDS?
> >> >
> >> >>mem.c:565:tds_free_all_results()
> >> >>odbc.c:3339:SQLFreeConnect(0x8060400)
> >> >>
> >> >>I really don't know what is happening...
> >> >>
> >> >>Thanks again !
> >> >>
> >> >>Igor
> >> >
> >> > Thank you.
> >> >
> >> > P.S.: Yes, it appears you're not the only Igor on earth... ;-)
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:06 PM, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> >>> Igor wrote:
> >> >>>> I've installed bind to get /bin/host to work fine.. and now FreeTDS
> is
> >> >>>> trying to connect to correct server:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I just committed a new version of osql to CVS HEAD that handles
> "server
> >> =
> >> >>> a.b.c.d" correctly.  :-)
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> [root@bsd ~]# osql -S LekkusLOJA -U $DBUSER -P $DBPASS
> >> >>> ...
> >> >>>>                            DSN:       LekkusLOJA
> >> >>>>              Server's hostname:       bzbraziline
> >> >>>>                        Address:       192.168.1.21
> >> >>>>                         Driver:       /usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so
> >> >>> [so far, so good]
> >> >>>> Attempting connection as lekkus...
> >> >>>> [S1000][unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server]Unable to connect to data
> source
> >> >>>> [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Omph!  OK, how about this:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>        $ TDSDUMP=dump osql -S LekkusLOJA -U $DBUSER -P $DBPASS
> >> >>>        $ head -20 dump
> >> >>>
> >> >>> It's in there somewhere.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Did you mention the version of your server?   Your odbc.ini sets
> >> >>> TDS_Version = 8.0.  You need SQL Server 2000 for that.  Try e.g.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>        $ TDSVER=4.2 osql -S LekkusLOJA -U $DBUSER -P $DBPASS
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --jkl
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Devinder