I have FMServer 11 running on an HP box on the LAN and serving 5 clients. I also have a separate HP box that I plan to run as an image file store/server. Do I install SuperContainer on the server with FMS11 or on the image server? If the former would this mean that, in addition to the store on the image server, SC creates a second image file store on the FMS11 server? If this is the case wouldn't this 'contravene' the recommendation that the hardware server that contains FMS doesn't try and run anything else? Also, wouldn't the SC file store eat into my HD space for the DB? I'm trying to get my head around SC and what it is, how it works, etc so please be gentle!

You can run SuperContainer on any machine that you want, and store the files in any location in your filesystem, though I recommend using a local file location rather than a network file location just to make the network and permissions settings easier. Setting up a service to access a network location isn't as easy as people think it is.

The installer.jar file only works on your web publishing engine, but you can deploy SuperContainer with tomcat on a completely independent machine or you can run the SuperContainerServer.jar file and run it in stand-alone mode so you don't have to worry about installing a web server at all.

You can run SuperContainer on any machine that you want, and store the files in any location in your filesystem, though I recommend using a local file location rather than a network file location just to make the network and permissions settings easier. Setting up a service to access a network location isn't as easy as people think it is.

The installer.jar file only works on your web publishing engine, but you can deploy SuperContainer with tomcat on a completely independent machine or you can run the SuperContainerServer.jar file and run it in stand-alone mode so you don't have to worry about installing a web server at all.

Thanks David

Update. I have two HP servers/server2008 on our college LAN. The FMS box has a 160Gb HD the other a RAID5 800Gb share for image files (of which eventually there'll be lots). To date I've installed SC on the box with FMS11 & SC runs OK from home over the college VPN. Today, I installed JRE/Tomcat/SC on the other HP box and I get the SC welcome page OK when I point the browser at 'http://serverAddress:8080/SuperContainer'. However, this only works with the browser within the server environment (through the college's VPN) not when I use the browser from my desktop Mac. Also, the FM web viewer pointing to 'http://serverAddress:8080/SuperContainer/Files' just hangs. Could this be a firewall/permissions problem perhaps? Any other suggestions?

Yes, if you can access it through localhost but not from outside of that machine then it is definitely a firewall or network issue. If you are using a proxy or vpn make sure that java clients are allowed access.