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[Robert Gonzalez <robert AT robert-gonzalez.com>]

Not sure if it is the same on Express, but I tried telneting to my SQL
Server 2003 server as a test and it failed even though I was able to connect
with isql and through PHP. Just a heads up that telnet failure, for me, was
a false positive. But that was trying to hit SQL Server 2003 from Ubuntu
linux.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:10 PM, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org>wrote:

> Duncan Kerr wrote:
> > It still fails.  However, I have realised a couple of points
> >
> > 1) The documentation says that sqlServer doesn't allow remote
> > connections by default - this may be stopping me from connecting
>
> That is the most likely problem.
>
> See if you can telnet to the port.  If telnet won't connect, nothing will.
>
>
> If you're not sure of the port number (or if you want to double-check)
> tsql from a recent snapshot supports -L to list the server's instance
> information.  (It's totally a hack right now; I'm working on documentation
> and a nicer interface.)
>
> --jkl
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