topic Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain in SAS Programming

How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

gorata — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:38:15 GMT

Hi Guys,

i have the following challenge in Windows environment:

I am trying to access (include statement) via SAS EG different sas project related sources located on shared drive .

The shared drive is in another domain , and of course i receive authorization error in SAS EG that i can not include the desired sources.

Do you have some experience with such situation.

How can i pass my credentials to the shared location in the other domain prior to the include statements.

Do you have some example?

Thanks a lot in advance and best regards

Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

ballardw — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:22:51 GMT

Show the code you use to reference one or more of those files.

You likely need to provide server /domain information and likely id and passwords.

Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

gorata — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:36:48 GMT

Hi,

actiually we are failing on the first step- include statement's and assignment of the required sources.

On this step we are receiving authentication error due to missing credentials.

Regards

Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

gorata — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:38:15 GMT

Do you have an simple example how this code should look like, in order to connect?

Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

ballardw — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:29:11 GMT

@gorata wrote:

Do you have an simple example how this code should look like, in order to connect?

I'm sorry but you really should provide LOG with the code you attempted and all the messages that might be involved.

There are so many ways that you can attempt to connect to stuff that I am not going to attempt to even guess.

Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

SASKiwi — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:48:43 GMT

Are trying something like this - %include '\\MyFileServer.MyOtherDomain\MyFolder';

If this is failing then most likely you will need your IT folks to set up the right security settings including firewall rules and folder share permissions. This isn't something you can fix yourself.

Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

Patrick — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:36:35 GMT

Can you access this network drive by any other means than SAS on the machine where SAS executes (=not the EG client but where the SAS Server component is installed)?

Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

gorata — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:45:15 GMT

No. SAS is installed on the new environment where we migrated the more or less whole desired content (except of the content on the shared drive) Shared content is located in the old domain. SAS is installed on the new domain.

Re: How to access files in Windows shared location in another domain

SASKiwi — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:59:43 GMT

In other words this is not a SAS issue but an IT network security / permissions issue. Raise the problem with your IT support people.