topic How to mount a Windows Folder on SAS Studio? in SAS Studio

How to mount a Windows Folder on SAS Studio?

albertsamaniego — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 03:08:05 GMT

I need to mount a certain folder located on a windows share folder on my Home Folder on SAS Studio using a %sysexec or call system command.

I tried using this one but it says ERROR: Shell escape is not valid in this SAS session.

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call system ('mount -t cifs <folder to mount> <mount location> -o username=user,password=pwd');
run;

ChrisBrooks — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:19:40 GMT

There are two possibilities here:

1. You're running in SAS University Edition in which case you can't mount a folder like that; or

If it's 2 above you may need to get your system administrator to fix it.

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:01:50 GMT

In addition to @ChrisBrooks:

3. you might need to have superuser/administrator rights to use mount on the UNIX system, or a sudo enabled for it.