Date:         Tue, 4 May 2010 14:42:56 -0400
Reply-To:     "Kirby, Ted" <ted.kirby@LEWIN.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Kirby, Ted" <ted.kirby@LEWIN.COM>
Subject:      SAS Connect Script File Location
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Out of curiosity, how does SAS know where to find the SAS Connect script
file for remote submission?  I have a colleague who, when he tried to
remotely submit a job to our SAS server yesterday, received an error
message indicating that the remote submit script file (tcpwin.scr) did
not exist in the" C:\WINDOWS\system32" folder.  

 

Since this folder is not accessible to users, we called our IT
Department to copy the file from 

 

"C:\Program Files\SAS\SAS 9.1\connect\saslink" 

 

to that folder.  After that was done, he was able to remotely submit his
job.  

 

However, today, he gets a message that the script file is not in 

 

"C:\Documents and Settings\<his user id>"

 

being able to get to this folder ourselves, we have now copied
tcpwin.scr into that directory as well and he is able to remote submit
again.  

 

My question is why did SAS look for that file in different places
yesterday and today.  

 

When I had seen a similar problem before, it appeared to me that the
location that SAS wanted the remote submission script to be depended on
how you got into SAS.  That is, if you opened SAS by double clicking on
a SAS dataset in Windows Explorer, SAS would want the file in one
folder.  On the other hand, if you opened SAS by using the "Start" menu
(i.e., Start-Programs-SAS-SAS 9.1), then SAS would look for that file in
different folder.

 

However, in this case, my colleague accessed SAS through the "Start"
menu both days.

 

Any ideas?


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