Post Installation Tasks

Sybase recommends that you perform all of the steps below after installing Adaptive Server on Windows platforms.

These steps should be performed as the “sybase” user that installed the Adaptive Server product. Verify that the “sybase” user is a member of the Windows system-defined group “Administrators” so the user has the access privileges that allow them to complete the steps described below.

  1. Stop all Adaptive Server services.

    Using the Administrative Tools, open Services, select each of the Sybase Adaptive Server entries and stop them. There are separate entries in Services for Sybase Adaptive Server SQLServer, XPServer, BCKServer, MONServer, and SYSAM.

  2. Identify the drives and folders where the Adaptive Server software is installed, and identify Adaptive Server’s disk devices. Use the Windows command line tool cacls or Windows Explorer to set access permissions on the identified drives and folders. For detailed instructions on the use of cacls or Windows Explorer, see your Windows documentation or your Windows Operating System administrator.

    Sybase recommends granting full control to the user “sybase” and denying access to others on all identified drives, files, and folder hierarchies.

    If users other than “sybase” need access to files (configuration files, programs, libraries, and so on) in the folder hierarchy, limit their access to read and execute. Granting this access and any further access permissions should be carefully reviewed by the administrator to ensure they are required.

    Note:

    cacls is a command line utility available on Windows 2000 and later versions. On earlier Windows versions, this utility is available from the Windows Resource Kit.

  3. Adaptive Server services should start as the user “sybase”:

    • Using the Administrative Tools, open Services and select each of the Sybase Adaptive Server entries installed.

    • Set the “Log On” properties for each of the entries to use “sybase” and the password for this account. This action results in the user “sybase” being granted ‘log on as a service” rights by Windows.

  4. Start Adaptive Server services. Using the Administrative Tools, open Services and select each of the Sybase Adaptive Server entries that were stopped in Step 1 and start them.