Creating shares for a new data appliance for ArcGIS Server 10

The Data Appliance for ArcGIS must be configured to share the data collections with ArcGIS Server 10. 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 Start > Administrative Tools > 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). Select the cache folder (or the source_documents folder) and click OK.

   

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

   Use the following table to set up the shares for your data collection.

   Folder	Share Name	Description
   \cache	cache	Data Appliance Cache
   \source_documents	source_documents	Data Appliance 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 Search results.

    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.