FreeTDS Development Group

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

Robert Gonzalez wrote:
> 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.

I don't see how that's technically possible.  Telnet forms a TCP
connection.  The server can't know it's not a TDS client because it sends
no data until you type something.  

Are you saying that:

        $ TDSVER=7.0 tsql -H $H -p $port -U $U -P $P

works and

        $ telnet $H $port 

fails?  

If some combination of server and telnet don't work when they should, we'd
need to understand and document that. 

--jkl