topic Re: Insufficent Authorization in SAS Enterprise Guide

Insufficent Authorization for network share on Windows

KBACHU — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:44:51 GMT

Hi All - I am getting Insufficent Authorization error when I try to access the files from SAS Enterprise Guide. I have full permissions to the files and they are located on file share. I am accessing the files from using UNC path. SAS is running on windows server.

Any suggestions?

Re: Insufficent Authorization

LinusH — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:30:37 GMT

If you are trying to access them from SAS code executed on the server - talk to your SAS server admin and potentially network admin to verify that this UNC is accessible from this server.

Also, there are metadata capabilities that can hinder user for issuing libname statements.

Can you show the whole message in it's context?

Re: Insufficent Authorization

JuanS_OCS — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:59:18 GMT

You might require to request your SAS admins to put the server as Trusted for delegation and/or register the SAS process/Server on the SPN list: see Registering SPNs at http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bisecag/67045/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1d1zo1jsf2o0en1ehu4c4simfky.htm

Re: Insufficent Authorization

KBACHU — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:02:11 GMT

Thanks JuanS_OCS . I dont think we are using IWA. Is the setting required for Non IWA as well? we use Active directory credentails to login to the server from SAS EG.

Re: Insufficent Authorization

ChrisHemedinger — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:43:57 GMT

Yes, Trusted for Delegation is still needed, even if not using IWA. This allows your "auth" to be forwarded to another network resource such as a UNC path or a network printer. The topic here addresses just IWA, but I believe it applies for any case where your Windows or AD credentials are used to access the server.