FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:01:55 +1100
David Dick <ddick AT cpan.org> wrote:
> On 29/01/11 17:15, Gigin Jose wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The connection to the server was made fine through tcp/ip from another 
> > windows machine.
> 
> How do you know that the connection was made using tcp/ip? Did you use 
> wireshark to watch the traffic?  Did you use "netstat /an" to show that 
> a tcp/ip connection had been made to 192.168.1.82 on port 1433?

Gigin, these are important questions.  If your Windows client isn't using 
TPC/IP, you can't use it to proove the server is listening on 1433.  

Perhaps the port is wrong.  If you're using a recent snapshot, this command 
will display the port information:

        $ tsql -LH 192.168.1.82

HTH. 

--jkl