This post will help you in configuring your cPanel server to support remote MS-SQL servers. First step – Install freetdns / odbc yum install unixODBC unixODBC-devel cd /usr/local/src wget http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/stable/freetds-stable.tgz tar zfvx freetds-stable.tgz cd freetds-* ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/freetds –with-tdsver=8.0 –enable-msdblib –enable-dbmfix