When you access a SAS/SHARE library that is defined in the metadata from a SAS^® client such as SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® or SAS^® Data Integration Studio, the allocation might fail and return the following error:

If the library that is using the REMOTE engine is pre-assigned (using the native engine), this error occurs in the workspace server log. If the library is not pre-assigned and you manually do the "assign" from a SAS client, the error occurs in the client's SAS log.

If you copy and paste the DISPLAY LIBNAME statement from SAS^® Management Console and run the LIBNAME statement on the same workspace server, the library is allocated successfully.

A temporary workaround is to define the port in the local host's /etc/services file, as shown in the following example (including quotation marks):

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.3_M2 is available at: