How to mount a Windows Folder on SAS Studio?

[albertsamaniego]

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]

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

2. The noxcmd option is set on your system (possibly by an administrator http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostwin/69955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0xtd57b40ehdfn1jy...

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

[Kurt_Bremser]

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.