Sybase/MSSQL

Mandrake 8.0 PHP 4.0.6 I have tried both Sybase-ct and freetds. (Current stable versions, whatever those numbers are) With Sybase-ct, I can actually connect to my local ASE server and do "sp_help" and yield a reasonable response (both from isql and from PHP) But attempting to connect to a remote MS SQLserver (in either isql or PHP) yields: CT-LIBRARY error: ct_connect(): network packet layer: internal net library error: Net-Library operation terminated due to disconnect (Can anybody translate that error message into layman's terms?...) I am reasonably certain I have the correct IP and port for db1 in interfaces, since I can telnet to those settings and get a response. I'm not sure about the "ether" versus "eth0" setting, but neither one works... Using the domain name rather than IP yields the same results. db1 master tcp eth0 192.168.1.20 1433 query tcp eth0 192.168.1.20 1433 lynchux master tcp ether windows11 4104 query tcp ether windows11 4104 Trying FreeTDS, I get an error from make about not finding -lsybtcl. I can "fix" that by editing the Makefile by hand and adding /opt/sybase to the library path, since that's the only place I can find any libsybtcl.so file on the entire system, but that just makes Apache segfault... And isql is not at all happy about trying to use the FreeTDS directory for its SYBASE setting... Some error message about a missing directory... Sorry, I got so frustrated at this point with FreeTDS, since Sybase at least let me talk to ASE that I gave up on FreeTDS. Is FreeTDS supposed to make its own libsybtcl or what? I used the FreeTDS configure line from the PHPBuilder article: /configure --with-tdsver=4.2 --enable-msdblib --enable-dbmfix --with-gnu-ld --enable-shared --enable-static http://phpbuilder.com/columns/alberto20000919.php3?page=3 I did not apply the patch because (A) I couldn't find it, and (B) it was for 4.0.2, so I was hoping 4.0.6 would already have had it applied... But I followed all the other instructions in the article, almost for sure. I'm not 100% certain it's SQL 7.0 Service Pack 2 -- The MS dba just left. They reassured me very early in this process that they were running the latest and greatest MS SQL Server, though. Please help -- I'm at my wit's end to make PHP talk to SQL Server. This should not be this tricky. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm