Thanks David. I will give that a try later today. Sounds possible.

Alan

Alan Churchill Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies" www.savian.net

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Johnson Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:26 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: SAS dataset on Unix challenge

Lots of suggestions Alan, and perhaps you have seen the issue resolved. If not, can you update your hosts file with a name for the ip address and then go through the ODBC administrator?

I don't have access to ODBC on this licence so I can't check it, but at first thought it seems possible to me.

Kind regards

David

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of Alan Churchill Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2007 1:27 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: SAS dataset on Unix challenge

Guys,

I need some suggestions. Here is the scenario:

I have a single SAS dataset on a Unix machine. No Samba installed on this machine and I have been told no for getting it installed.

I have a .NET application on a Windows Server 2003. The .NET app needs to read in the SAS dataset. I have been told that we cannot use Windows NFS either.

How do I get to this dataset? Someone suggested using ODBC with an IP address but I have never seen that done before. Integration Technologies is not available and the SAS local provider needs a physical mapping to read it in via OleDb.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Alan

Alan Churchill Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies" <http://www.savian.net/> www.savian.net