The eG Installation Guide - eG Innovations

Installing and Configuring on Unix
4. Next, check whether the other protocols listed in the right panel of Figure 2.8 are Enabled. If
not, then enable those protocols.
• If the MS SQL Server 2008 is used as the eG backend, then ensure that the ‘SQL Server’
service and ‘SQL Server Agent’ service are running on the SQL Server host.
• Ensure that ‘NTLVM v2’ is disabled for the Windows host on which the MS SQL database
server executes.
For this, follow the steps below:
Login to the Windows host of the MS SQL database server where the eG database is to be
configured.
From the Start menu, go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy.
When the Local Security Settings window opens, expand the Local Policies node in the treestructure
in the left panel of the window, and select Security Options. All the security policies of
the Windows system and their settings will be displayed in the right panel as depicted by
Figure 2.9 below.
Figure 2.9: Viewing the Security options of the Windows system hosting the MS SQL database server
Browse the policies list in the right panel for the following policy: Network security: LAN Manager
authentication level
Check whether the security Setting of that policy is Send NTLM response only. If not, then you
need to change the security setting. For this, first select the policy from the right panel, rightclick
on it, and then pick Properties (see Figure 2.10).
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