How to fix the [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified (ODBC::Error)

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Answer 1

You should start by setting up and configuring FreeTDS. Here is a sample configurations from my files, but I'm sure other variants will work also. One difference is that I'm using Django, but the result below still worked eventually, but it works much better with SQL authentication than with Windows Authentication.

From /etc/freetds/freetds.conf (use the IP of the server if DNS is not active for the server name).

# A typical Microsoft server
[MyServer]
        host = 10.0.0.10\path
        port = 1433
        tds version = 7.0

From /etc/odbcinst.ini

[FreeTDS]
Description = FreeTDS
Driver = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsodbc.so

From /etc/odbc.ini

[ServerDSN]
Description = "Some Description"
Driver = FreeTDS
ServerName = MyServer
Server = ip_address
Port = 1433
Database = DBNAME

Then this command connects me to the database.

tsql -S MyServer -U username@servername -P password