"An attempt to establish a connection with a server named "SASApp" did not succeed" occurs when connecting to a SAS Workspace Server


The following error might occur in SAS® Enterprise Guide® 8.4 and SAS® Enterprise Guide® 8.5 when connecting to a SAS Workspace Server. This error might occur if you set ServerInitializationTimeout to -1 in the SAS Enterprise Guide configuration file SEGuide.exe.config within the SAS Enterprise Guide installation directory.

An attempt to establish a connection with a server named "SASApp" did not succeed.

Workaround

To circumvent this issue, set ServerInitializationTimeout (in milliseconds) to a value other than -1. Alternatively, do not specify a value, which will default ServerInitializationTimeout to 90000 milliseconds.

<configuration> <appSettings> <add key="ServerInitializationTimeout" value="90000" /> </appSettings> </configuration>