After you install Service Pack 1 for the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, SAS/CONNECT server sessions might issue “undetermined I/O” error messages when you use the UPLOAD or DOWNLOAD procedures for Universal Naming Convention (UNC) file paths.

The problem occurs because of security changes imposed on Windows. The following Microsoft Knowledge Base article identifies the issue and provides a workaround:

     support.microsoft.com/kb/926642/en-us

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS/CONNECT	Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional
		Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
		Windows Vista

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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After you install Service Pack 1 for Windows 2003 Server, you might have problems accessing files via UNC paths in SAS/CONNECT server sessions.

Type:	Usage Note
Priority:

Date Modified:	2008-07-23 14:23:05
Date Created:	2008-06-09 14:07:47