Create shares

ArcGIS Data Appliance must be configured to share the Data Appliance collections with ArcGIS Server. The following instructions are for a Data Appliance configuration on Windows:

1. Sign in to ArcGIS Data Appliance as an administrator.
2. Right-click the Start menu and select Computer Management.
3. In the Computer Management application, click Shared Folders to expand the tree, right-click the Shares folder, and choose New Share.

   

4. In the Create a Shared Folder Wizard, click Next to begin.
5. For Folder Path, click Browse, and browse to the hard drive with the ArcGIS Data Appliance collection. Select the cache directory (or the source_documents directory) to be shared and click OK.
6. Click Next.
7. On the Name, Description, and Settings dialog box, provide the Share name and Description as indicated in the following table. For Offline setting, accept the default.

   Each product option comes with more than one collection of drives. Each collection requires uniquely named shares for the cache and source documents directories. When you enter the share name and description, use the following naming convention for your cache shares and source document shares according to the product option you purchased.

   Collection	Folder	Share name	Description
   Collection A	\CollectionA_v7.2\cache	CollectionA_cache	Collection A Cache
   	\CollectionA_v7.2\source_documents	CollectionA_source_documents	Collection A Source Documents
   Collection B	\CollectionB_v7.2\cache	CollectionB_cache	Collection B Cache
   	\CollectionB_v7.2\source_documents	CollectionB_source_documents	Collection B Source Documents
   Collection C	\CollectionC_v7.2\cache	CollectionC_cache	Collection C Cache
   	\CollectionC_v7.2\source_documents	CollectionC_source_documents	Collection C Source Documents
   Collection D	\CollectionD_v7.2\cache	CollectionD_cache	Collection D Cache
   	\CollectionD_v7.2\source_documents	CollectionD_source_documents	Collection D Source Documents
   Collection E	\CollectionE_v7.2\cache	CollectionE_cache	Collection E Cache
   	\CollectionE_v7.2\source_documents	CollectionE_source_documents	Collection E Source Documents
   Collection F	\CollectionF_v7.2\cache	CollectionF_cache	Collection F Cache
   	\CollectionF_v7.2\source_documents	CollectionF_source_documents	Collection F Source Documents
   Collection G	\CollectionG_v7.2\cache	CollectionG_cache	Collection G Cache
   	\CollectionG_v7.2\source_documents	CollectionG_source_documents	Collection G Source Documents
   Collection H	\CollectionH_v7.2\cache	CollectionH_cache	Collection H Cache
   	\CollectionH_v7.2\source_documents	CollectionH_source_documents	Collection H Source Documents

   

8. Click Next.
9. Choose the Customize permissions option and click Custom.

   

10. In the Customize Permissions dialog box, click Add.

    

11. In the Select Users or Groups dialog box, click Advanced.

    The Select Users or Groups dialog box expands.

    

12. Click Find Now to display a list of all local users. Press the Ctrl key and click the Administrator user and the arcgis user to highlight them. With both users highlighted, click OK above the Search results area.

    The dialog box reverts to a smaller size, and the two users you just selected are listed under Enter the object names to select.

    

13. Click OK.
14. Make sure the permissions for the users and groups are set to Full Control.
15. Repeat steps 3 through 14 to create cache and source_documents directories for each collection in your ArcGIS Data Appliance product option.