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Provide a Remote File System

As part of an active-passive installation, FME Server System Share files, which include Repositories and Resources, are installed in specific directories that are shared to enable access from different computers.

Create a directory for the FME Server System Share to which other computers involved in the installation can read and write.

Linux Only

For distributed installations on Linux, it is necessary to create a user, prior to installation, with permissions on the FME Server System Share. This user must be named 'fmeserver' and belong to group 'fmeserver'.

Example Instructions

The following example creates user 'fmeserver' in group 'fmeserver', and allows mount /mnt/data to be writable by the newly-created user.

Note: The following instructions are provided as a general guideline for adding a user and mounting a directory. Exact instructions may vary depending on the distribution and share type in your Linux configuration.

  1. Run the following commands in the Linux command line:
  2. groupadd fmeserver

    useradd -m -g fmeserver fmeserver

  3. Mount the FME Server System Share directory so that user 'fmeserver' has read and write permissions. For example:
  4. mount -t cifs //network/share /mnt/data -o gid=1008,uid=1008

    gid and uid are the group id and user id of the user and group that were created. These id's can be found using these commands:

    id -g fmeserver

    id -u fmeserver