Monday, February 16, 2009

SAS Enterprise Guide - Server File Access

SAS Enterprise Guide allows users to access files on the SAS server environment. Only one of the three options can be set - either to point to the designated user folder 'SAS User Root', set to the root 'System Root', or define a shared location/directory 'path'. The SAS Administrator sets this as an Advanced Option on the Workspace Server in SAS Management Console. In SAS Management Console -right-click on the "Workspace Server" in Server Manager -select "Properties" -select "Options" tab -select "Advanced Options" button -select "File Navigation" tab -select Path and specify "c:\temp" -OK

2 comments:

Dale said...

Very helpful. We have been trying to access the 'T:\' drive on our server via EG and this post allowed us to set the path correctly.

Thanks.

Angela Hall said...

This process is exactly the same in SAS 9.2 - however your Server Manager Node might look a little bit different. In a default environment it would be the lowest level of 'SASApp - Workspace Server'.