Here is a thing you can try if you have EG 8.2.
It's clunky, and it won't work if the installed PC SAS doesn't include a SAS Integration Technologies license (check proc product_status; run;) to see.
On the machine with PC SAS, open a command prompt.
Run ipconfig and note the IPv4 address in the output.
Run this SAS command (adjust paths as needed - enter all on one line)
"c:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe"
-objectserver -objectserverparms "protocol=bridge port=5555 nosecurity cel=none"
-nologo -noterminal
The port number can be anything you want. This launches a SAS session that listens for a client connection on that port. Your firewall software might balk at this, for good reason. If you have privileges to allow it, great. If not...well, you might be done with this experiment. The nosecurity bypasses need for credentials, and cel=none bypasses encryption across the connection. (In case you think I'm revealing secrets here, this is all documented in the OBJECTSERVER and OBJECTSERVERPARMS reference doc.)
From your EG 8.2, open the Connections window. On the Servers table, select Add under Additional SAS Workspace Servers. Give it a name, enter the IP address and the port number you used in the SAS command. You can leave everything else empty/default.
Now you'll have this additional server in your Servers list, using the name you assigned. Click it to connect. You'll be prompted for credentials but just click OK.
If stars align, you're connected! But, the SAS session ends when you end EG or otherwise disconnect. To connect again, you need access to that machine with PC SAS to run the SAS command again to listen for the next connection.
Let me be clear -- I don't think this is a great way to work and it might violate a practice of you connecting your personal laptop (assuming that's where you have EG installed) to a corporate network/resource. But I share this because it might be useful for others who have just EG and PC SAS and the single Local server. You can use this method to "configure" a SAS instance with different default options (for example, a different ENCODING option at startup) and still use EG to get your work done.
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