Database Connection Accross a Network

[eluser]Pygon[/eluser]
The only real difference between your code and CI's code is that CI has rawurldecode() for the hostname and such (which shouldn't cause a problem). Ofcourse, this assumes that you have

Code:

$db['default']['dbdriver'] = "mssql";
//... AND ...//
$db['default']['pconnect'] = FALSE;

or your testing isn't very valid (since CI will try to use a persistent connection, unlike your code).

Otherwise, not sure what to say -- works perfectly fine for me using a remote MSSQL database and persistant connections.