FreeTDS Development Group

[Daniel Fazekas <fdsubs AT t-online.hu>]

On Jan 14, 2010, at 15:58, Luis de Vasconcelos wrote:

> Recently somebody asked if the FreeTDS configuration file, freetds.conf, 
> MUST be stored in the C:\ drive. Apparently this requirement is hard-coded 
> into FreeTDS. Is this correct? 

No.

> Or is it possible to put the .conf file somewhere else on the server? If 
> so, how does FreeTDS know where to find it?

You could set the FREETDS environment variable to point to the new location 
and file name of the config file.
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/envvar.htm

Or you can recompile FreeTDS and change the default location compile time.