FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:38:42 -0400
Evan Panagiotopoulos <epanagio AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From past attempts the remote server admin said that he saw the
> following error:
> The login packet used to open the connection is structurally invalid;
> the connection has been closed. 

Sounds like you're not using TDS version 7.0 or above.  You can confirm
that with TDSDUMP and enforce it with freetds.conf or TDSVER.  

HTH.

--jkl