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["J. Bobby Lopez" <jbl AT jbldata.com>]

Thanks for your help Cedric.

It looks like it was a port issue after all, but not that I had the
incorrect port - it seems the port was being filtered from the network I was
on.

I tried this out on another host which didn't suffer from the same problem,
and it worked.

Thanks again.

Bobby

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM, J. Bobby Lopez <jbl AT jbldata.com> wrote:

> I just confirmed with the DB admin that the database is indeed running on
> port 1433.  Also, I did a 'netstat -an' on the system that the RazorSQL
> client was running, and it's destination port was 1433.  There must be
> something else I'm missing.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Cedric ROUVRAIS <
> cedric.rouvrais AT sgcib.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I get this error when using the incorrect port for SQL Server.
>>
>> a++ Cedric
>>
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>>                                                                   Subject
>>                                               Re: [freetds] FreeTDS with
>>                                                MSSQL 2005 Issue [NC]
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>> I hadn't before (thanks for reminding me), but I got the same error:
>>
>> root@DEVTEST01:/usr/local/freetds/etc# tsql -S Reporting -U
>> "domain\\username"
>> locale is "en_CA.UTF-8"
>> locale charset is "UTF-8"
>> Password:
>> 189Msg 20009, Level 9, State -1, Server OpenClient, Line -1
>> Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist
>> There was a problem connecting to the server
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Cedric ROUVRAIS
>> <cedric.rouvrais AT sgcib.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > dumb question.
>> >
>> > We agree that you wrote domain\\user in order to escape the \ ?
>> >
>> > a++ Cedric
>> >
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>> Subject
>> >                                               Re: [freetds] FreeTDS with
>> >                                               MSSQL 2005 Issue
>> >
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>> >
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>> >
>> > Also, I tried connecting without the configuration file in this way:
>> >
>> > TDSVER=7.0 tsql -H P reporting.domain.com -p 1433 -U "domain\username"
>> >
>> > Which is why I got the "Server name not found in configuration files"
>> error
>> > below.  But still nothing.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:47 AM, J. Bobby Lopez <jbl AT jbldata.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hello All,
>> > >
>> > > I'm trying to get FreeTDS working against an MS SQL 2005
>> (v.9.00.4035.00,
>> > > Enterprise Edition, SP3).
>> > >
>> > > I've compiled freetds in the following way:
>> > >
>> > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds
>> > > make
>> > > make install
>> > >
>> > > My '/usr/local/freetds/etc/freetds.conf' includes the following entry
>> > >
>> > > # A typical Microsoft server
>> > > [Reporting]
>> > >         host = 1.2.3.4
>> > >         port = 1433
>> > >         tds version = 7.0
>> > >
>> > > I use the tsql command as follows:
>> > >
>> > > tsql -S Reporting -U "domain\username"
>> > >
>> > > I use the domain because the database requires "windows
>> authentication".
>> > > It seems like it is about to connect.  I get prompted for a password,
>> and
>> > > then I get the counter seconds climbing (0,1,2,3...)
>> > >
>> > > Eventually it does and throws this error:
>> > >
>> > > Msg 20012, Level 2, State -1, Server OpenClient, Line -1
>> > > Server name not found in configuration files.
>> > > 188Msg 20009, Level 9, State -1, Server OpenClient, Line -1
>> > > Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist
>> > > There was a problem connecting to the server
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > After several attempts I figured that there just must be something
>> > > incompatible with freetds and this particular server.  But then I went
>> > and
>> > > tried to connect to the database with my linux-based database query
>> > program
>> > > (RazorSQL), and it connects just fine with JDBC:JTDS.
>> > >
>> > > So what am I doing wrong with FreeTDS?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance.
>> > >
>> > > Bobby
>> > >
>> > >
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