If you are using EG to connect to a remote machine, the INFILE or FILENAME statement must refer to a file that exists on the remote machine. Because the SAS program is running remotely, it cannot pick a file off of your local hard drive, unless you craft the file reference so that it can see your file as a network resource.
For example (assuming a Windows server):
filename myfile "\\mylocalmachine\public\mydata.txt";
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