Windows Authentication for SQL Server using JBDC on a Mac

Question

Is it possible to connect to SQL Server using Windows authentication/integrated security from a Mac? I am using the type 4 JDBC driver provided by Microsoft. The front end (a fo

Answer 1

I use jTDS on a mac (10.9).

Using this driver you need to specify the username and password like always, the only difference is that you need to specify domain=WHATEVERTHENTDOMAIN in the connection string (or connection properties if you rather).

So a sample connection string is:

jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://db_server:1433/DB_NAME;domain=NT_DOMAIN_NAME

The jTDS driver then uses NTLM to login to the specified domain with the username and password.