VirtualLab.unc.edu provides a great ‘cloud’ service for running applications without the need to install the software on your computer.  However it doesn’t come without some headaches.  One of those headaches comes with trying to work with your files and how you access them through VirtualLab.

The drive letter designation that Virtual Lab uses for your local C: drive for instance would be:

//Client/C$/

For example, in SAS, if you want to reference a library location on say your network J: drive then your SAS libname reference needs to look like this:

/* my SAS repository*/
libname [library name]  '//Client/J$/[my_library_folder]';
* instead of normally using J://[my_library_folder]

So simply replace you drive designation C:// with //Client/C$/ (or whatever the drive letter is you are trying to connect to).

If all else fails

Additional Virtual Lab tips can be found here:
http://help.unc.edu/help/what-are-my-data-storage-options-in-virtual-lab/