Hi:
You could have several different scenarios for using SAS Enterprise Guide (EG):
1) SAS EG and Foundation SAS on the same machine: this is the case when you have the SAS Learning Edition installed. In this case, there are no remote servers or external servers involved -- you execute all code on the Local computer. This is also the scenario if you have EG and a single-user copy of SAS (not the Learning Edition) on your Windows machine.
2) SAS EG on Windows and SAS on a server machine: this is the case when you may have 10 analysts, each using SAS EG on their personal machines, and the single copy of SAS (and other SAS products) and all the data is on a different server -- such as a Unix server. In this case, the EG users each have a copy of SAS EG installed on their Windows machines, SAS is running on the server and when the analysts submit code, there is a "pipeline" from their machine to the SAS server that takes their code, sends it to the server and receives the results back from the server.
3) SAS EG and Foundation SAS as part of the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform (Business Intelligence) software: EG is only one of the client applications used in this scenario. Other client applications include the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office, SAS Web Report Studio and the SAS Information Delivery Portal (for end users); SAS Management Console, SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS Information Map Studio and SAS Olap Cube Studio (for data modelers and system administrators). In this scenario, there's still a "pipeline" that connects EG to the servers -- but the pipeline almost always goes through the SAS Metadata server for access and control information.
Deployment will be different depending on which of the scenarios corresponds to your particular configuration.
Your best resource for help would be to identify which of the above scenarios corresponds to your configuration and to contact Tech Support for more help.
cynthia