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  • From: Krish <krishna.sunuwar AT gmail.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist
  • Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 10:35:17 +0545

Thanks HTH,

I got it worked by setting version = 7.0 on freetds.conf under [global]

Krish

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:00 AM, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2013 10:30:48 +0545
> Krish <krishna.sunuwar AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The SQL Server is not in localhost, but it is in machine called
>> db_server. Access to db_server is restricted to mid_server. I created
>> tunnel with
>>
>> $ssh -L 1433:db_server:1433 user@mid_server
>>
>> The above port forwardign is working for Navicat. I can connect
>> localhost:1433 via Navicat and access all database in db_server. I
>> also can telnet localhost 1433. So main problem is freeTDS not working
>> port forwarding. Is there any way to get this work?
>>
>> and my config is:
>>
>> [sqlserv]
>> host = localhost
>> port = 1433
>> tds version = 7.0
>
> I don't know Navicat, but if that works, then FreeTDS should work,
> too. Probably just a small configuration error.
>
> Try:
>
> $ TDSVER=7.0 tsql -H localhost -p 1433
>
> That should work. If not, you'll have to get ssh to tell you what's
> going on. You could also try tracing the Linux system calls. FreeTDS
> just opens a TCP connection, nothing fancy, same as telnet.
>
> If the above command works and "tsql -S" does not, then FreeTDS is not
> looking at your freetds.conf file. To see why not, try:
>
> $ TDSDUMPCONFIG=dump tsql -S sqlserv
>
> and look at the "dump" file. Usually the output is clear enough to let
> the reader diagnose the problem.
>
> HTH.
>
> --jkl
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