With SAS/Connect, you can submit a job to a remote server. Then allow the workstation to block for the results (synchronous) or run asynchronously. With SAS/Connect, the job submitted through RSUBMIT should run on the server. Only the results are returned to the workstation. That's my understanding and what we desire. Mitch ... View more

By default, Windows Firewall blocks Telnet. Adding an incoming port 23 enabled SAS on the workstation to connect with the server. Mitch ... View more

The spawner is using SSPI, but that should not pose a firewall issue. Mitch ... View more

We have a literal handful of team members. They need to be able to access SAS data extracts to run statistical analysis. It is not practical to replicate the data on every workstation. Nor is it practical for the data to go back and forth via a file server. Therefore, the team members need to be able to use RSUBMIT to initiate SAS statistical analysis on the server and then obtain the SAS output on their workstation. That's why I selected the default installation. This works fine, as long as I turn off the Windows Firewall. I don't want to do that. Even though they are accessing the server across a VPN which employs a NAT, once they are connected to the domain, a virus on their machine could attempt to port scan. I need to get the default functionality to work wit the Windows Firewall in Windows Server 2012 R2. Thanks for trying to help. Mitch ... View more

Thanks, but I would prefer not to use the SAS Metadata Server. We only need to be able to run SAS and do statistical processing. That was why I chose the default installation. Mitch ... View more

Thank you for the replies. I did a default install to be able to use SAS Foundation over a VPN from a dedicated server for SAS. From the port list above, I created incoming rules for TCP 7541 and 7551. Also an outgoing rule for TCP 7551. This is not enough to allow a client version of SAS to connect to the server through Windows Firewall. Clearly, it is the firewall, since if I turn it off, the workstations can connect without a problem. Are there other critical ports that need to be enabled to use SAS Foundation. Thanks, again. Mitch ... View more