FreeTDS Development Group

[David Dick <ddick AT cpan.org>]

On 09/06/10 08:45, Chris Adams wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to this list. I am a new user of freetds. Here is my 
> scenario. I am trying to connect from a Redhat ES3 (old,yes I know) box to a 
> MSSQL Server 2005 databse.
>
> I have installed the latest stable version of freetds on the Linux box. I run 
> the tsql command like this:
>
> Tsql  -H my.host.ip.address -p 1443 -U sa
>
> The result is this:
>
> tsql -H  my.host.ip.address -p 1443 -U sa
> locale is "en_US.UTF-8"
> locale charset is "UTF-8"
> Password:
> Msg 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
>
>
> I have tinkered with older versions of freetds, had the freetds-devel 
> installed and installed unixodbc. I may have missed some steps and am missing 
> parts that are needed.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction so that I don't continue 
> spinning my wheels here? Thanks.

Ok.  First, you need to make sure that SQL Server is actually listening 
on port 1433.  I would recommend using telnet to test the connection 
from your ES3 server.

secondly, set the TDSDUMP environment variable ( 
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/logging.htm ) and use the dump file to 
either solve the issue yourself, or post it to the list.