First of all, are you connecting to a local SAS server from Enterprise Guide (Base SAS is installed on the same PC as Enterprise Guide and the connection profile is 'No Profile Selected'), or are you connecting to a remote SAS server? If a remote server, is the operating system Windows or Unix? When connecting to a remote SAS server from Enterprise Guide, the server needs to be able to access the path you are specifying on the LIBNAME statement. For example, a remote server will most likely not be set up to access the files on your local PC, but it may be able to access a shared network drive.
A UNC (universal naming convention) path uses double slashes or backslashes to precede the name of the computer. The path (disk and directories) within the computer are separated with a single slash or backslash, as in the following examples. Note that in the DOS/Windows example, drive letters (c:, d:, etc.) are not used in UNC names.
//servername/path Unix \\servername\path DOS/Windows
For example, you may have a mapped drive on your PC that is using the drive letter 'F'. 'F' is actually mapped to a network server named server123 and a directory named SAS_Files. Your training files are located in the subdirectory EGP194 within SAS_Files. So instead of using the path of 'F:\EGP194', the UNC path would be '\\server123\SAS_Files\EGP194'. Does that help?
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