Shared Information

After the server is started and running, the clients need the following information to access the server:
  • If the clients are accessing a server that requires authentication, specify the SERVERUSER= and SERVERPASS= options. For the Windows environment, you can also specify the SSPI= option.
  • Server name (host name or IP address of the PC running the server).
  • Port number or service name. If you do not use the default value, you must specify the port number in the LIBNAME statement on the client PC.
    PORT=value;
  • Path to any files, or ODBC data sources to which they have access that is relative to the files system on the server PC, such as “C:\Excel files\mysheet.xls”. Enclose the path in double quotation marks.