Windows NT Domain Name Can be Specified in the Username

[IMAGE] Introduced in Version 8 for Windows NT hosts only, the domain name specifies the location of the database that contains the username and password pairs that are used for validation. You may specify the name of either an NT domain or an NT server at which the database resides.

This Version 8 feature replaces the Version 7 requirement to define a single NT domain according to the product. Version 7 SAS/CONNECT provided the -AUTHSERVER option to the PC spawner. Version 7 SAS/SHARE provided the AUTHSERVER system option. In Version 8, you may bypass these options and specify the domain name in the form domain\username when you supply your username in the Windows NT environment. Here is an example of how you might specify this information in the SAS/CONNECT SIGNON statement:

signon user="apex\bass" password=time2go;

Here is an example of how you might specify this information in the SAS/SHARE LIBNAME statement:

libname test 'prog2 a' user="apex\bass" password=_prompt_  server=share1;

The domain name apex identifies the location of the username and password database. The username bass and the password time2go will be verified against those in the identified domain's username and password database.

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