FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

Kevin Reed wrote:
> 
> which leads me to ask the question are there version of SQL server  
> that freetds cannot connect to?.

No.  I don't get to make many categorical declarations, and I thank you
for the opportunity!  ;-) 

> i set the TDSVER as in the example shown, and tried all the values  
> listed in the help pages(4.2, 5.0, 7.0, 8.0)
> all of which created the same response.

1.  State the version of your server.  
2.  Set TDSVER to the version you think is correct for your server.  
3.  export TDSDUMP=tdsdump.log
4.  Run tsql. 

Post tdsdump.log here and let's see what's what.  

HTH.

--jkl