Hi,
I'm trying to connect to a MSSQL 2000 server using PDO ODBC. On Windows, things work fine. I'm now trying to get thing working on Linux (Ubuntu), but having problems. I'm not sure if the problem is driver-related and/or PDO syntax-related.
The following connection string works perfectly on Windows:
$db = new PDO("odbc:Driver={SQL Server};Server=<server IP address>;Database=<databas
But on Linux I get the exception:
SQLSTATE[IM002] SQLDriverConnect: 0 [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified
As far as I can tell the syntax is supposed to be supported on Linux as well as Windows (http://php.net/manual/en/
I can connect via PDO to MySQL on Linux OK. It's just the ODBC to MSSQL that's giving me this error.
Can anyone help? Do I need some kind of MSSQL shared object too? Maximum points awarded as this is fairly urgent. Thanks!
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No additional thought.
Any hint when looking at the logs? If MSSQL and/or windows server refuse access, it probably keeps records of that "potential security breach" (or so it seems to think) somewhere...
You said that access from windows is no problem. Is that a local access on the server or a remote access from another station?
The DSN is also defined on the server, right?
Hi fibo,
The access from Windows works fine both locally and remotely. There's nothing in the log indicating a failure.
I'm using the same PHP code on Linux and Windows to access the MSSQL server - the difference is what PHP's PDO library is using. There is no "DSN" defined per se - I'm specifying a connection string at runtime as I described in my original note. The PHP PDO documentation (pointer in original note) seems to indicate this is allowed. Do you (or anyone else?) know if this is actually not the case?
But I think there's something about needing to set up a file/DSN somewhere on the Linux client in addition to using the connection string above. I'll continue looking into that. Thanks for the help.
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by: fiboPosted on 2008-08-25 at 11:14:57ID: 22307727
The connection from your script on the Ubuntu server to SQL server on the Windows server fails.
Are your SQL server and IIS server allowing connections from the Ubuntu server?
Are the username and password in the DSN releted to a domain or just the SQL base?