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LeBoulet · ‎11-02-2011

Yes, this option tells SAS where to find rbrowser and it works. But it wasn't the issue. What I have not found is how to tell rbrowser where to find Firefox: it always tries to find it on `hostname`, which in my example was pg02 instead of 192.168.31.112, or even more conveniently 127.0.0.1 (no need to tweek the configuration for each computer with this one).

LeBoulet · ‎11-02-2011

Thanks for your answers, they may come in very handy, particularly the workaround to revert to old behavior. I have recently found were the problem came from and it made me improve my system setup in the process. I actually had a proxy issue. Accessing the world wide web from my network is done through a 8080 proxy server. For some reason, Firefox doesn't seem to check locally known hostnames before sending the request to the proxy and, from there, the DNS is checked. The complete list of hosts that shouldn't be contacted through the proxy is too long to be set directly in firefox's proxy ignore list, so I created a pac (javascript) file to assign this ignore list. Now that requests don't go to the proxy anymore, everything works fine. So it wasn't a SAS or rbrowser issue per se. That said, it would have been nice to be able to set the target IP address to rbrowser rather than using a compulsory hostname.

LeBoulet · ‎10-13-2011

Thank you for the (quick!) answer, but this rather scarse (no offense intended) documentation actually was what I was I referring to when mentioning "googling". Unfortunately, it says nothing about the configuration of the agent (or I've missed that part). From what I understand, the helphost and helpport options only serve to tell SAS where to find the remote browser agent. This part of things seems to work, because the default configuration: myself:~$ /usr/local/SAS/sas_9.3/SASFoundation/9.3/sas leads to a SAS error window (saying how to download rbrowser) and no Internet browser firing up, like this: whilst the correct helphost option: myself:~$ /usr/local/SAS/sas_9.3/SASFoundation/9.3/sas -helphost 127.0.0.1 causes Firefox to fire up. But, the URL sent to it is not correct, as you can see here: So I'm still wondering how to configure the agent itself. I've not found documentation about possible command line arguments, only a "preferences" window that deals exclusively with the SAS client's properties and the executable path of the browser, but not with the content of the URL to be sent to the browser: I hope I have missed something because as I understand things so far, I'll have to set up a DNS-registered server dedicated to SAS display (both help and pictures) for all (not DNS-registered) clients. Regards

LeBoulet · ‎09-29-2011

Hello everyone. I'd like to know if (and where) a documentation exists that explains what is exactly the remote browsing agent, how it is installed and configured, or even disabled in order to get back to classical internal display. I have successfully installed SAS 9.3 (Linux), but trying to view the help or graphical output results in an error explaining that the server is unreachable. From what I understand after some googling, the problem is that I don't have an agent running on the system. Why is it not installed when SAS is? I have tried to copy it (ie: the file rbrowser) in /usr/local/bin/ and start it manually, but SAS apparently still doesn't find it because the system is not registered in any DNS server. I have already tried using various command lines to start SAS, like: /usr/local/SAS/sas_9.3/SASFoundation/9.3/sas -helphost localhost or /usr/local/SAS/sas_9.3/SASFoundation/9.3/sas -helphost 127.0.0.1 Without improvement. I suspect I've missed a couple of important things, but I feel rather lost. Any help would be apprecciated because I'm starting to bang my head against the walls... :smileycry:

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