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[rasiel payumo <leonhart_ras AT yahoo.com>]

this is my odbcinst.ini

[TDS]
Description = v0.61 with protocol v4.2 and v7
Driver = /usr/lib/libtdsodbc.so
Setup = /usr/lib/libtdsS.so
FileUsage = 1

when i executed an osql command to cmd prompt osql -S alpha -U sa -P 
<password> i've got an error message:
[DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied
[DBNETLIB]Connection Open (Connect()).

when i executed that osql command in my putty the putty won't stop loading 
when i executed it again there was a bash error:
command not found


was osql command can only be executed from windows' cmd prompt and not on 
linux? 
i have a server running (mssql 2005) and i have configured it on Data Sources 
(ODBC) --> both on User DSN and System DSN 


--newKiD


________________________________
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org>
To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 7:21:47 PM
Subject: Re: [freetds] emerge unixODBC freetds

rasiel payumo wrote:
> my odbc.ini is at /etc/unixODBC/odbc.ini 
> i had a feeling that my odbc.ini is not correct also here's what i've
> wrote:
> 
> [alpha]
   ^^^^^
This is the name you should be trying to connect to.

> Driver          = TDS
                    ^^^ 
There should be a section called [TDS] in your odbcinst.ini that points to
libtdsodbc.  

> Description     = puls3 mssql server
> Trace           = Yes
> TraceFile       = /tmp/unixodbc.trace
> Servername      = elk
> Server          = 172.30.79.40

You can't have both "server" and "servername".  I'm assuming you want an
ODBC-only setup?  If so, delete the servername line.  

http://www.freetds.org/userguide/odbcconnattr.htm

> Port            = 1433
> Database        = myTestDB
> UID             = sa
  ^^^ ignored, not a valid odbc.ini attribute.  See the user guide.  
> Language        = us_english

You should add:

TDS_Version = 7.0


> i don't have osql

Well, I did give you links to download the file in an earlier message.  I
don't know why I should repeat them, but here goes:

http://freetds.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freetds/freetds/doc/osql.txt?revision=1.4&view=markup

http://freetds.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freetds/freetds/src/apps/osql?revision=1.7&view=markup

You'll see "download" links on both pages.  You know what to do.  

For instructions on using osql, please see read osql.txt.  Since you're
new at this, a couple of hints:

1.  The file doesn't need to be "installed".  It's just a shell script,
not very different from (but much better than!) a .BAT file in Windows, if
you're familiar with them.  

2.  Unlike Windows, the current directory is not in the PATH; when you
say:

    $ osql -S alpha -U sa -P passwd

the system looks for "osql" in each directory mentioned in the PATH
environment variable, but *not* in the current directory.  So, to run a
script that's in the current directory, you do this instead:

    $ ./osql -S alpha -U sa -P passwd

HTH.  

--jkl
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