How to Use a Shared Drive for a Distributed UMS

You can use a shared network drive to facilitate file sharing between the instances of your Distributed UMS.

It is possible to use multiple shared drives in a Distributed UMS environment. In this case, those UMS instances that have a shared drive to which a specific file has not been uploaded yet will use the Distributed UMS sync function to sync that file to their shared drive.

In this article, you will learn how to set up a Distributed UMS that uses a shared network drive.

Prerequisites

All instances of the Distributed UMS have a valid UMS license (for details, see https://kb.igel.com/en/igel-subscription-and-more/current/igel-os-editions)
You have a database that will be connected to all instances of the Distributed UMS
The shared drive supports the SMB/CIFS protocol

Setting up a Shared Drive

Checking if the Location of the Shared Drive Is Reachable

→ From the machine that hosts your UMS, ping the location of the shared directory to ensure it can be reached.

Setting the Permissions for Windows

→ For the shared folder, set the following permissions for Everyone to Allow:

Full control
Modify
Read & execute
List folder contents
Read
Write

Use the following illustrations for guidance:

Setting the Permissions for Linux

→ Configure your Samba server (Ubuntu: /etc/samba/smb.conf) using the following example

CODE

[SharedFolder]
  path = /mnt/shared
  browseable = yes
  read only = no
  guest ok = yes
  force user = nobody
  create mask = 0777
  directory mask = 0777
  force create mode = 0777
  force directory mode = 0777

UMS Installation with a Shared Network Drive

Installation Under Windows

For general information on installing the UMS under Windows, see IGEL UMS Installation under Windows.

In the step UMS data directory, enter the path to the shared folder. Example: \\123.123.123.123\SharedFolder
This will create the folder ums_filetransfer in the following location: \\123.123.123.123\SharedFolder\rmguiserver\webapps\ums_filetransfer

Check if the folder ums_filetransfer has been created with all the necessary folders and files in it.

Installation Under Linux

For general information on installing the UMS under Linux, see UMS Installation Under Linux.

To install the UMS on a Linux system with a shared network drive, the shared folder must be prepared appropriately. In the following, we will use /mnt/shared as an example for the folder for data storage; adapt the commands accordingly if you have a different path.

Create the folder to be used as the data folder.

CODE

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/shared

Mount the shared folder to your data folder.

CODE

sudo mount -t cifs //123.123.123.123/SharedFolder /mnt/shared -o guest,vers=3.0,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

In the step UMS data directory, enter the path to the shared folder. Example: /mnt/shared
This will create the folder ums_filetransfer in the following location: //123.123.123.123/SharedFolder/rmguiserver/webapps/ums_filetransfer