have installed freetds and unixODBC on a RedHat 9 box. The problem is that i persistently cannot connect to a SQL server. What seems to be the error??? This is the actual configuration and the tests i performed # /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S MyServer70 -U sa locale is "en_US.UTF-8" charset is "UTF-8" Password: Msg 5703, Level 0, State 1, Server ACSSQL, Line 0 Changed language setting to us_english. # isql -v MyServer70 sa password [unixODBC]Client unable to establish connection [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cat /etc/odbcinst.ini [PostgreSQL] Description = ODBC for PostgreSQL Driver = /usr/lib/libodbcpsql.so Setup = /usr/lib/libodbcpsqlS.so FileUsage = 1 [TDS] Description = v0.52 with protocol v4.2 Driver = /usr/local/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so FileUsage = 1 cat /etc/odbc.ini [MyServer70] Driver = TDS Description = Northwind sample database Trace = No Servername = 195.26.152.120 Database = Northwind UID = sa Spirovski Bozhidar System Engineer, MCP, MCSA MTnet Orce Nikolov b.b. 1000 Skopje Macedonia Phone: +389 2 3296091 Fax: +389 2 3213480 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]