myfolders as a CIFS submout - possible?

[pe243]

hi everyone

I'm not using virtualbox nor I can share folders with local fs in my virtual environment.

I guess, hope, that I could submount CIFS/NFS share as /folders/myfolders - is SAS capable of it, would it work?

many thanks.

[Reeza]

Are you using SAS UE? What are you using then, if not Oracle VirtualBox, VMWARE, AWS/Azure?

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I'm not using virtualbox nor I can share folders with local fs in my virtual environment.

I guess, hope, that I could submount CIFS/NFS share as /folders/myfolders - is SAS capable of it, would it work?

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The settings to the shared drive are entirely in control of the Virtual Machine environment you're using. As long as that system can set up a path to the drive/mount that's what's important. In this case it's not a matter of SAS being able to do or not do something, this is outside SAS control.

[Damo]

Hi @pe243

In addition to comments from @Reeza, if you're looking for instructions related to VMWARE, please have a look at SAS® University Edition: QuickStart Guide for VMware Workstation Player.

Step 3 "Configure - Import SAS University Edition into VMware Workstation Player and share your myfolders folder with VMware Workstation Player" could be what you're looking for.

Cheers,

Damo

[pe243]

Well, I'll rush my horses and say - rubbish - no provision for proxy so on a host like mine(isolated) SAS does not seem to work: it fails with "unknown status code" which might be also due to the fact that sharedfolders also seem to tied down to that one local VM and no provision for sharedfolders over network which would be only option for me.

This SAS seem to be dedicated to a single person who sits on it constantly but not for me. I doubt I'll ever bother to introduce it to the students.

[Reeza]

@pe243 are you venting or looking for assistance? 

If you want help please be more specific on whatever issues you're having. 

Otherwise, have a good day.