topic Re: How do you share drives between Amazon AWS instances? in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-do-you-share-drives-between-amazon-aws/m-p/26448#M970 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN class="comment-copy">It is working now.&nbsp; You must have a security group setup that is shared by both instances and configure the security group to allow port 445.&nbsp; In the EC2 Dashboard in the Security Groups section, I edited the Inbound tab of the security group and added a "Custom TCP Rule", set to port 445, and limited it to the private IP address ranges of my instances.&nbsp; I logged in to the first instance and setup the drive share to be "D" for all users read only.&nbsp; Then I logged into the second instance and mapped a network drive using \\private_IP\D to the first instance.&nbsp; When you map to the drive, it will ask for your login and password on that instance and then you can view the contents of the drive.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:48:31 GMT MichaelCarson4 2014-07-24T13:48:31Z How do you share drives between Amazon AWS instances? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-do-you-share-drives-between-amazon-aws/m-p/26447#M969 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have two Amazon AWS instances running Windows 2012 and both have attached EBS drives.&nbsp; I would like one of the instances, lets say INST01 to share it's D drive with INST02.&nbsp; INST02 has ArcGIS Server running on it and I would like it to access data on the D drive on INST01.&nbsp; I thought all I would have to do is share the D drive on INST01 with the share name "D", then on INST02 just map a network drive to \\server\share like \\INST01\D, but that does not work.&nbsp; I then thought I would need to use the internal IP, or what Amazon calls "private IP", for INST01, like \\172.31.44.60\D, but that did not work.&nbsp; I even tried using the public IP assinged to INST01, but that did not work.&nbsp; Finally I tried using the instance ID, like \\i-c3bb29d7\D, but again that did not work.</P><P></P><P>I must be missing something in the setup that Amazon is not allowing this simple task to work on my servers.&nbsp; Anyone have a VERY CLEAR step by step example on how to set this up?&nbsp; It would be greatly appreciated!</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:39:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-do-you-share-drives-between-amazon-aws/m-p/26447#M969 MichaelCarson4 2014-07-23T14:39:54Z Re: How do you share drives between Amazon AWS instances? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-do-you-share-drives-between-amazon-aws/m-p/26448#M970 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN class="comment-copy">It is working now.&nbsp; You must have a security group setup that is shared by both instances and configure the security group to allow port 445.&nbsp; In the EC2 Dashboard in the Security Groups section, I edited the Inbound tab of the security group and added a "Custom TCP Rule", set to port 445, and limited it to the private IP address ranges of my instances.&nbsp; I logged in to the first instance and setup the drive share to be "D" for all users read only.&nbsp; Then I logged into the second instance and mapped a network drive using \\private_IP\D to the first instance.&nbsp; When you map to the drive, it will ask for your login and password on that instance and then you can view the contents of the drive.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:48:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-do-you-share-drives-between-amazon-aws/m-p/26448#M970 MichaelCarson4 2014-07-24T13:48:31Z