Creating shares for a new data appliance

The Data Appliance for ArcGIS must be configured to share the data collections. The following instructions are for a new data appliance configuration on Windows.

Steps:

1. Log in to the Data Appliance for ArcGIS as administrator.
2. Click the Start menu, expand the Administrative Tools menu, and select Computer Management.
3. In the Computer Management application, click Shared Folders to expand the tree, and right-click the Shares folder. Select New Share.

   

4. In the Create a Shared Folder Wizard, click Next to begin.
5. For Folder Path, click Browse, and navigate to the hard drive with the data collection (usually drive E, or if you have more than one collection, drive E, F, or G). Select the cache folder (or the source_documents folder) of the data collection to be shared, and click OK.

   

6. Click Next.
7. In the Name, Description, and Settings dialog box, enter the Share name and Description for your data collection as indicated in the following table. For Offline setting, accept the default.

   Use the following table to set up the shares for your data collections

   Collection	Folder	Share Name	Description
   Basemap	\cache	cache_bc	Basemap Collection Cache
   Basemap	\source_documents	source_documents_bc	Basemap Collection Source Documents
   World Imagery	\cache	cache_wi	World Imagery Collection Cache
   World Imagery	\source_documents	source_documents_wi	World Imagery Collection Source Documents
   World	\cache	cache_wc	World Collection Cache
   World	\source_documents	source_documents_wc	World Collection Source Documents

   

8. Click Next.
9. Select 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 each of the three ArcGIS users and the Administrator user to highlight them. Then, with all four users highlighted, click OK above the Search results area.

    The dialog box reverts to a smaller size.

13. The four users you just selected should be listed under Enter the object names to select. Click OK.

    

14. Change the permissions on the ArcGISSOC account to allow Full Control.
15. Repeat steps 3 through 14 for the source_documents folder.