https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/PreAssigned-Libraries/m-p/16398#M3075 EG is a client and does nothing. It's in most cases the SAS Workspace server which assigns the library.<BR /> <BR /> The command to assign the library is a normal libname statement.<BR /> <BR /> Pre-assigned is a definition made in SAS Metadata. When you connect to a SAS Workspace server (that's connecting to a SAS Server, a session get's created on this SAS Workspace server (using the SAS Object Spawner)) the SAS Metadata is read and the libnames for all pre-assigned libraries get executed. - Have a look at the properties of the library in SAS EG - there you can see the libname statement which was used.<BR /> <BR /> Other ways of having pre-assigned libraries are:<BR /> - Library is assigned via SAS/Share<BR /> - Library statement is part of the SAS autoexec which gets executed while the SAS session on the SAS Workspace server gets created.<BR /> <BR /> HTH<BR /> Patrick Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:53:15 GMT Patrick 2009-11-15T21:53:15Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/PreAssigned-Libraries/m-p/16397#M3074 How does a EG assign a pre assigned libraries .What is the command it uses? Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:27:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/PreAssigned-Libraries/m-p/16397#M3074 karthikeyan_S 2009-11-13T07:27:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/PreAssigned-Libraries/m-p/16398#M3075 EG is a client and does nothing. It's in most cases the SAS Workspace server which assigns the library.<BR /> <BR /> The command to assign the library is a normal libname statement.<BR /> <BR /> Pre-assigned is a definition made in SAS Metadata. When you connect to a SAS Workspace server (that's connecting to a SAS Server, a session get's created on this SAS Workspace server (using the SAS Object Spawner)) the SAS Metadata is read and the libnames for all pre-assigned libraries get executed. - Have a look at the properties of the library in SAS EG - there you can see the libname statement which was used.<BR /> <BR /> Other ways of having pre-assigned libraries are:<BR /> - Library is assigned via SAS/Share<BR /> - Library statement is part of the SAS autoexec which gets executed while the SAS session on the SAS Workspace server gets created.<BR /> <BR /> HTH<BR /> Patrick Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:53:15 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/PreAssigned-Libraries/m-p/16398#M3075 Patrick 2009-11-15T21:53:15Z