SAS Metadata Server Configuration Error

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I started he deployment with Metadata Server, I successfully finished installation and started the configuration, it wont let me select the configuration directory under deployement directory, see attached screen... by the way I uninstalled previously installed version on the servers, and started the fresh deployement 

[vrkgali]

Simple Question:

Do you have write permission on that directory.?

Try browsing to that directory and create a file there as the user you are installing and confirm.

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BARCLAYS CLASSIFICATION: Internal Only

Yes I am installing with the userid "sas" and it is the owner
/sas/SAS94MQ/config> ls -ll
total 0
/sas/SAS94MQ/config> touch test.txt
/sas/SAS94MQ/config> ls -ll
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 sas app_psas 0 Aug 10 09:48 test.txt

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http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bisag/68240/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0v5rampodzajbn1w825...

" The installer must have Write permission to this path. Do not specify a path that is within the SAS installation directory (for example, SASHome)."

is /sas/SAS94MQ your SASHome directory?

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BARCLAYS CLASSIFICATION: Internal Only

/sas/SAS94MQ/SAS_94 is my home directory
/sas/SAS94MQ/config is my config directory
And sas is the installer id, it has write permissions to all of the above

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It's not a permissions problem. 

That's the error message I get if I try to locate the config under an already existing SASHome - do you know if it was one previously (but maybe no longer)? 

The sdwpreferences.txt documented here: http://support.sas.com/kb/49/799.html

Will contain a list of the previous paths - if it's no longer used you should be able to remove it, and install there now - but a restart of the SAS Deployment Wizard may be required.