How are shared network drives mounted on the Xenium Analyzer instrument?

Question: How are shared network drives mounted on the Xenium Analyzer instrument?

Answer:

The Xenium Analyzer can mount NFS and CIFS shared drives. The following steps will create a new folder in the xeniumuser home directory and mount the shared drive to that folder:

mkdir /home/xeniumuser/shared_drive 
sudo mount {path_to_shared_drive} /home/xeniumuser/shared_drive

Mounted drives will be lost if the Xenium Analyzer is rebooted. To automatically mount shared drives after a reboot, an entry can be added to /etc/fstab. The xeniumuser account can use a command such as sudo vim /etc/fstab to edit that file.

Please note that the following drive names are already mounted on the Xenium Analysis Computer, so avoid mounting another volume with these names:

• /data 
• /output 
• /scratch 
• /conf 
• /home 
• /opt 

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Products: Xenium Analyzer
Last updated: June 16, 2023