I solved the problem with HomeBrew brew install unixodbc brew install freetds
after that you can set up your dsn in Utilities iODBC. Thank you. -- Bruno Rocha [ About me: http://zerp.ly/rochacbruno ] On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Ross Peoples <ross.peop...@gmail.com>wrote: > Bruno, > > I too have had this problem. It seems as if Mac OS X has some real problems > connecting to MSSQL, which isn't too much of a surprise I guess. The way > that I develop on Mac OS X may be crazy or over-complicated, but I find it > works well for me: > > I set up a Ubuntu Server virtual machine in Parallels, set it to use > Bridged Networking, give it an IP address, then install and configure pyodbc > and freetds. Both of those can be installed via aptitude. I've done it a few > times, so it only takes me about 10 minutes to set up a web2py installation > in a virtual machine. > > I also develop from multiple Macs, so I have a copy of the virtual machine > on each Mac, and I use Dropbox to sync the code between each computer. I've > been developing this way for about a year now, starting with Django, and > haven't found any problems with it yet. Plus, I am targeting Linux as the > production server for my app when it's complete, so if there are any quirks, > I'll know about them before putting the app into production. > > Hope this helps, and if you need a more detailed setup guide, I actually > have some instructions I wrote down for setting up and configuring a virtual > machine for web2py development. > > @Annet: > Bruno said MSSQL, not MySQL. Everyone seems to get those two confused > because of the similar spelling, though. >
