When you attempt to create a new SAS^® Enterprise Miner ™ project, the following error might be displayed. You are not able to create the project.

Specified SAS Server Directory does not exist.

The error is displayed when these two conditions are true:

• the workspace server is in a lockdown state.
• you attempt to create a project in a folder where the PARENT folder is not in the whitelist.

With the lockdown feature enabled, the error is generated based on whether the PARENT directory of the current path is in the whitelist. To resolve the error, you can perform either of the following workarounds:

• Add the PARENT directory to the whitelist.
• Create an additional directory to the PATH and then specify that PARENT in the whitelist.

Example: The projects folder is C:\EMProjects. A members list is retrieved for C:\ when testing for the existence of C:\EMProjects. If C:\ is not in the whitelist, then the members list cannot be retrieved, and the above error is displayed. To avoid this error, C:\ needs to be listed in the whitelist

Suppose that you want all projects to be confined to C:\EMProjects but do not want to open up the parent C:\ in the whitelist. Add another level for the storage location. Example: C:\EMProjects\projects.

Then add the parent, C:\EMProjects, in the whitelist and specify C:\EMProjects\projects for the project path.

The lockdown feature became available in SAS^® 9.4M1. For further information about lockdown and whitelist, see Locked-Down Servers in this document: SAS(R) 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.

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