Date:         Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:53:36 -0400
Reply-To:     RHOADSM1 <RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         RHOADSM1 <RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Access to Novell
Comments: To: HEATONE <HEATONE@westat.com>
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Ed,

    I don't think it's as much a question of access rights, but of whether or
not you are attached to the Novell server in question.  Under Novell 3.x, if you
are not logged on or attached to the server, you can't get to a file stored in
it, regardless of the access rights you may have.

    You can still, however, get around the need to map a drive letter.  If this
is not a server to which you are normally attached, you can create a BAT file to
do the connection and then call this from your SAS program.  For instance, put
the two lines below in c:\junk\attach.bat:

attach reg/guest
exit

and then run code something like that below:
options xsync noxwait;
x 'c:\junk\attach.bat';

filename  test  "\\reg\sys\weswin2\sas612\autoexec.sas";

data _null_;
infile test;
input;
put _infile_;
run;

    Mike Rhoads
    Westat
    RhoadsM1@Westat.com

<<Ed Heaton asked>>
Greetings;
   Here at Westat, we have some SAS macros that are stored on a Novell network
in folders where I have no access.  (I rather like having no write access, read
access would simplify matters.)
   We normally access these macros by assigning a drive letter to the folder
(logging in as "guest" with no password) and then using that path in a FILENAME
statement.
   However, I do not like to use mapped network drive letters in my code.  I get
much more portability if I use network path designations such as
   FILENAME coll_adj "\\Red\Sys\TechPup\StatMacs\Coll_Adj.mac" ;
   %INCLUDE coll_adj ;
But this does not work.  It seems that my job does not have the permissions
necessary to include the macro.  I tried
   FILENAME coll_adj
      "\\Red\Sys\TechPup\StatMacs\Coll_Adj.mac"
      NAME= "guest"
   ;
   %INCLUDE coll_adj ;
but it also did not work; NAME= is not a valid option.  I have not found the
documentation for the FILENAME statement that allows me to include this macro.
So I mapped a network drive and ran the job using
   FILENAME coll_adj "o:\StatMacs\Coll_Adj.mac" ;
   %INCLUDE coll_adj ;
However, I really do not like to use mapped network drives.  Do you know how I
can access the COLL_ADJ.MAC macro on a Novell network?

Ed

Edward Heaton, Sr. Systems Analyst,
Westat (An Employee-Owned Research Corporation),
1550 Research Boulevard, Room 2018, Rockville, MD 20850-3159
voice:  (301) 610-4818                  fax:  (301) 294-3992
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