Pyodbc: Login Timeout Error

Question

I am trying to connect to MS SQL Server using pyodbc from a remote machine running Ubuntu 16.04.

import pyodbc 

conn = pyodbc.connect(r\'DRIVER         


        

Answer 1

Microsoft's ODBC drivers for SQL Server do not use a PORT= parameter. The port number, if any, is appended to the server name/IP with a comma, e.g.,

SERVER=xxxTest-SRV,51333;