topic No access to local drive using SAS Server in Administration and Deployment

No access to local drive using SAS Server

ldagiasis — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:11:04 GMT

What settings do my administrators need to change in order to allow me to access my local drive using the path structure below? It says that I don't have authorization!

libname myData "//MachineNetworkName/c$/Folders/MyDataFolder

Thanks a bunch!
Lauren

Re: No access to local drive using SAS Server

LinusH — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:18:49 GMT

I've never been to a site that allowed servers to access local PC drives, so I can't see that happening. But start talk to your network admins.
But I would sugest that you find other means to accomplish your tasks. The server is there for reasons. Use it, or any other centrally available locations for your stuff.

Re: No access to local drive using SAS Server

DanNavot — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:21:11 GMT

Lauren,
In order to use the c$ path you need to be an administrator on the server. Alternatively you can ask the admin to create a network share named folders (or whatever ) on directory c:\Folders on the server and to give you appropriate permissions.
After that you will be able to access your local drive by using '\\server\folders\MyDataFolder
Dan

Re: No access to local drive using SAS Server

anja — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:56:50 GMT

Hi,

maybe i misunderstand your question, but from where are you trying to access your local data?

Are you trying to submit this from a SAS client on your desktop or are you running SAS on the server??

Thanks

Anja

Re: No access to local drive using SAS Server

ldagiasis — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:01:11 GMT

HI! We are currently in the process of moving from SAS PC to SAS on the server and having the functionality of accessing our hard drive would be ideal.

Re: No access to local drive using SAS Server

LinusH — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 03:14:21 GMT

Having data on local drives is not ideal and you should try to move all data asap to a central location.
If you have a Windows SAS server with the same bitness as your PC clients just have your users move them manually to location reachable from the server.
If you have a separate OS/bitness your are more safe if you let the users export the data using PROC CPORT.

Re: No access to local drive using SAS Server

userid007 — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:30:10 GMT

libname myData "//MachineNetworkName/c$/Folders/MyDataFolder

To access this c Share of the your from server, your id (or the id that runs the SAS program ) should have admin access to the <Machinenetworkname>

Apart from that the work space server firewall should allow to connect to other pc's in the network. If you can ping(disabled in windows 2012 servers as a default ) the server name from the pc and vice versa then no issue.

Best Regards,

Sai Korrapati

Re: No access to local drive using SAS Server

JuanS_OCS — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:47:42 GMT

Hi @ldagiasis

you have received good insights here. Please let me summarize and add mine:

You want to access to: libname myData "//MachineNetworkName/c$/Folders/MyDataFolder"

Maybe I am wrong, but first the pat should use the \\xxxxx\ format, instead of //xxxx/ one
if you want to access an administrative UNC path all the paths with $ sign, you need to have administration permissions on the target machine.
Also, you will need to have the SPN registered, as explained on Register SPNs: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bisecag/67045/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1d1zo1jsf2o0en1ehu4c4simfky.htm
Suggestions:
- If you run SAS on the same machine where the C drive is, better use libname myData "C:\Folders\MyDataFolder"
- If, still, you need a shared folder, just ask your administrator to create a shared folder for MyDataFolder, with permissions to the SAS users you require and sassrv (if you have it), then use a libname myData "\\MachineNetworkName\MyDataFolder"

I hope this can help a bit there.
Best regards,

Juan