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SAS Enterprise Guide - Server File Access

By Angela Hall on SAS Learning Post February 16, 2009

SAS Enterprise Guide allows users to access files on the SAS server environment. Only one of the three options can be set - either to point to the designated user folder 'SAS User Root', set to the root 'System Root', or define a shared location/directory 'path'.

The SAS Administrator sets this as an Advanced Option on the Workspace Server in SAS Management Console.

In SAS Management Console
-right-click on the "Workspace Server" in Server Manager
-select "Properties"
-select "Options" tab
-select "Advanced Options" button
-select "File Navigation" tab
-select Path and specify "c:\temp"
-OK

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Angela Hall
Senior Technical Architect

Angela offers tips on using the SAS Business Intelligence solutions. She manages a team of SAS Fraud Framework implementers within the SAS Solutions On-Demand organization. Angela also has co-written two books, 'Building BI using SAS, Content Development Examples' & 'The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes'.

8 Comments

Sharath on February 23, 2018 12:21 pm

Hello Angela,
Our requirement is to have 3 folders to all the users.
1.$home path of a user ( i think here SAS User Root option will work) - But if i choose this option, only $Home path of user is listed.
2. System Root - Will grant Home folder + root filesystem of the server - But we need to have /app/project1/ filesystem.
3. PATH option - sets only one path - if i set /app/project1/ filesystem - only this is visible and $home is lost.

Please guide any other way to have a user to have the folder list like this,

/home/thala/
/app/project1/
/app2/projec2/

Thanks,
Thala
- Angela Hall on February 23, 2018 12:23 pm
  
  I would suggest using use symbolic links. Such as: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/creating-soft-link-or-symbolic-link/
Paresh Kotwani on September 4, 2017 8:08 pm

Is it possible to pull files files from SAS server using informatica?
William on October 31, 2014 7:08 pm

Hi Angela, If you check path and specify let's say /xxx and when you start EG6.1 and click on the File folder and it fails with [Error] Physical file does not exist.Is there an option to specify a path in your sasv9.usermods.cfg file.
- Angela Hall on October 20, 2015 3:23 pm
  
  I dont believe there is any option available in the sasv9 cfg files. This starter file path must be set in the Workspace Server within SAS Management Console.
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Angela Hall on August 19, 2009 1:59 pm

This process is exactly the same in SAS 9.2 - however your Server Manager Node might look a little bit different. In a default environment it would be the lowest level of 'SASApp - Workspace Server'.
Dale on August 4, 2009 10:58 am

Very helpful. We have been trying to access the 'T:' drive on our server via EG and this post allowed us to set the path correctly.Thanks.