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Getting EG to access SAS code from anywhere within the network

bwasicak — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:32:07 GMT

I have EG running on a Windows server and my compute tier is a Linux server. However; my end users have code all over the place and want to use it from EG. But when they log in they only see the code in their /home directory on the Linux server. How can they use code share drives, or the Windows server, or even shared directories on the Linux server?

Re: Getting EG to access SAS code from anywhere within the network

bwasicak — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:59:45 GMT

I got it !!! I was focused on the Server/SASApp/files folder. I can get to anything on the Windows server or any drives connected to the Windows Server, but I can only see the Linux file structure under my /home directory. Is there a way to show other directory paths on the Linux Server; which; is the compute tier?

Re: Getting EG to access SAS code from anywhere within the network

jakarman — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:27:54 GMT

When you are on 9.3 or later and working with EGuide there are 4 locations to store sas programs.

- Within your EG project

- On the Windows OS environment

- On the server side OS environment

- Inside the SAS metadata folders (not sure for code but EGP projects does)

Choosing any of combination is also thinking on the governance of all that. (access rights, app deployment, backup restore)

You SASinitial folder on Unix is commonly your home dir. Same as Windows mydocuments.

You are missing an easy shortcut away from that to where everything is really stored.

I you can modify the appservercontext_env_usermods.sh script in ?/Lev-/SASapp

You could add:

umask 002 # Setting of umask as default overwriting to one inhiritid form the sassrv (spawner) key.

export yrapploc=<your application location> # folder name of eg /SASApp/files

     export yrappnam=SASApp
     unlink ~/${yrappnam}
     ln -s ${yrapploc} ~/${yrappnam}

The unlink ln combination will generate only the first time usage a note

the ln command will cause a folder in your home-dir that points to the real location.

Having those export is getting those names available in the sas session. Either by using the ! in filenames or retrieving with a sysget function.

The disadvantage with this that you will find in a EGP the link to sources with the personal name in it (not the real location).

using an %include statement as code will work well,

Browsing using the sas explorer will work fine.

The default location of the WS can be changed to root ( ''/' ). This has the disadvantage all of the machine is becoming visible.

Re: Getting EG to access SAS code from anywhere within the network

Tom — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:20:42 GMT

Your SAS program on Linux (unix) you can view any file that the process has rights to by knowing its path.

The real question is have your Linux administrators installed software such as SAMBA or NFS that will allow them to mount Windows shares as if they were regular Unix disks. If they have then you just need to know where they are mounted. So from Windows you might know a directory as \\server1\share1\ and on Unix they might have mounted that as /vol/windows_shares/server1/share1

Re: Getting EG to access SAS code from anywhere within the network

u58814865 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:19:16 GMT

A mounted samba drive between Linux or windows the AD security or permission will be inherited or not.

Thanks

Re: Getting EG to access SAS code from anywhere within the network

Sajid01 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 21:49:26 GMT

A linux system can be integrated to an Active Directory service. But for a specific case your Linux administrator can give a proper advice.