SAS 9.4 under Win10 cannot %INCLUDE a program with a UNC address

[bentleyj1]

I have a program that has been running just fine under Win7 for a few years.  Now I've got a new box with Win10 on it and it broke.

The program %INCLUDEs other SAS programs stored on network drives.  We have to use Universal Naming Convention file names because users in different departments have their network drives mapped differently.  This particular program works just fine under Win7 (really, it does, I swear) but under Win 10 it returns the file doesn't exist error.

I tried googling it but the blogs and web sites that might be useful are blocked. 

Does anyone have any experience with Win10 including UNC file names?  

269  %include "\\WFSIADMNSF21\C_MTGBCD_Groups\Campaign_Execution_Reporting\sas_execution\templates\ SAS_teradata_&_environment._Template\code\sas_cef_template_005_pre_setup_checks.sas" /source;

WARNING: Physical file does not exist, \\WFSIADMNSF21\C_MTGBCD_Groups\Campaign_Execution_Reporting\ sas_execution\templates\SAS_teradata_development_Template\code\sas_cef_template_005_pre_setup_checks.sas.

ERROR: Cannot open %INCLUDE file \\WFSIADMNSF21\C_MTGBCD_Groups\Campaign_Execution_Reporting\sas_execution\templates\SAS_teradata_development_Template\code\sas_cef_template_005_pre_setup_checks.sas.
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[ChrisHemedinger · Accepted solution]

Is all of this on a local Windows machine, or are you accessing via a client like SAS Enterprise Guide?  If the latter, then you need to set "Trusted for Delegation" on the Windows box.  This will allow Windows to make the additional network hop on behalf of your program.

If that's not it -- are you running the SAS job with your native Windows credentials, or is it running under another identity that might not have network access?

[bentleyj1]

Thanks Chris and SASKiwi.  The app switches to a non-user id that didn't have access to the network location I needed to use.  Got it fixed.

John

[SASKiwi]

Try the UNC path in Windows Explorer. You may need to get your IT folks involved in fixing this.