Questions[connection](ubuntu)

I need an easy and complete tutorial for making a MSSQL connection from Ubuntu.

I think I installed FreeTDS and UnixODBC but configurations are very complicated I didn't understand the issue.

I followed this tutorial: https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter/wiki/Platform-Installation---Ubuntu

But I failed.

root@hackmachine:~# isql -v example.com XXXXX XXXXXXX
[IM002][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified
[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
root@hackmachine:~# 

Edit:

Before this edit "/etc/odbcinst.ini" and "/etc/odbc.ini" was empty.

I added these lines to /etc/odbcinst.ini :

[FreeTDS]

Description     = TDS driver (Sybase/MS SQL)

Driver = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsodbc.so

Setup = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsS.so

CPTimeout       =

CPReuse         =

FileUsage       = 1

I added these lines to /etc/odbc.ini :

[project_development]
Driver = FreeTDS
Description     = ODBC connection via FreeTDS
Trace           = No
Servername      = developer
Database        = project_development

[project_test]
Driver = FreeTDS
Description = ODBC connection via FreeTDS
Trace = No
Servername = developer
Database = test

[project_production]
Driver = FreeTDS
Description = ODBC connection via FreeTDS
Trace = No
Servername = production
Database = project_production

I didn't make any changes on "/etc/freetds/freetds.conf" since the very beginning.

Still, nothing has changed.

How do I can delete connection URL present in file>Connect To Server. for security reasons I want to remove all that connection URLs to which i have connected.

My deluge-console is suddenly giving me this error

Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:58846 with reason: Connection refused 

why is this error.I have done nothing and the GUI deluge runs fine.Its the problem in console only? Why localhost is refusing connection and how do I connect to daemon? I have tried the command

connect 127.0.0.1 58846

but it doesnt seems to work.

For a little while now, a strange connection has been showing up on my netstat made by the command:

/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.1 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2 

By the time I notice it, the connection is always at the closed state. Every time I trace the IP address, it usually says that no website is registered.

I am unsure what activated this. It could be one of my browsers (Chrome and Firefox). I'm getting a little worried about this.

Could someone clue me in to what this could possibly be, and how to prevent the connection.

Because my internet connection is very unstable at the moment, I'd like to use a small indicator applet for the Unity panel.

Since I'm connected through a WLAN/Wifi Router, I can see in the network-applet when the connection to the router is lost, but not when the router loses the connection to the Internet.

A Windows 7 computer of mine has this functionality. It shows a black exclamation mark on yellow ground if it can't "ping" a remote server.

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" 64-Bit with Unity 3D.