When you try to access a SAS/SHARE^® server library, you might encounter the following error:

Error Message:

Unexpected ERROR C003C829 from GENERATE PASSWORD in "Kernel"(0) for user xxxxxx(2): 
ERROR: Object does not exist.  ERROR: Invalid object specified to bridge protocol engine.
User xxxxxxx(2) has disconnected from server __.

This error occurs when the SAS^® Metadata Server is stopped and the trusted–user connection with the SAS/SHARE server is broken. In this situation, you must stop and then restart the SAS/SHARE server with the SAS Metadata Server if the trusted–user connection is in use when you start the SAS/SHARE server.

For configured SAS/SHARE servers in the second maintenance release for SAS^® 9.3 (TS1M2), there are two workarounds:

• The first workaround is to add an OPTIONS statement to the ShareServer_usermods.sas file. This file is available in the SAS–configuratio–directory\Levn\ShareServer directory. In the OPTIONS statement, specify non–trusted metadata user ID and password values for the METAUSER= and METAPASS= options, as shown in the following example:
  options metauser="sasadm@saspw" metapass="password"

  In this example, password specifies a valid password for the SASADM internal user account.

The user ID and password are required in order to invoke the SAS/SHARE server. Adding the non–trusted user ID and password prevents the SAS/SHARE server from connecting to the SAS Metadata Server with the trusted user account when the SAS/SHARE server is invoked.

• The second (and more recommended) workaround is to use the plan configured server's start and stop scripts to stop the SAS/SHARE server before you stop the SAS Metadata Server. Then the scripts automatically restart the SAS/SHARE server after the SAS Metadata Server is restarted.

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