Adding a Drive Account for Aspera Shares

To set up a transfer account, make sure you have the following information from the system administrator who manages your Shares transfer server:

A URL for the Shares transfer server, including a port and path (if applicable).
A username and password that was set up on your Shares transfer server.

The steps below assume that you have Drive installed and running.

To add a Shares account to Drive, do the following:

Fill in the fields with the following information about the Shares transfer server:

Field	Description
Account Description	The name of the account. The name is used only by Aspera Drive.
Server Address	The URL address for the server, and the port number (if applicable).
Username	The username that you have on the Shares transfer server.
Password	The password that you have on the Shares transfer server.

Click Set up Aspera Drive.

Drive then validates the connection.

If you are prompted to confirm the server's security certificate, indicate whether you trust the server.
If the connection is successful, the New account wizard displays timeframe options for package downloading.
If the transfer server supports synchronization, either
- Set up syncing. To do so, either accept the default directory shown for Place my files in, or click Change to browse for a different folder (or create a new one).
  or
- Click I'd rather not set up file syncing now.
If you opted to set up syncing on the previous screen, the New account wizard prompts you to choose folders to sync.
You can either
- Select Synchronize with the selected remote folders and then select the folders on the server to sync.
  Click the arrows to expand or collapse the folder view, and select the check boxes for the folders you want to sync.
  Choose the sync direction:
  - Two-Way
  - Remote to Local (default)
  - Local to Remote
  or
- Select I'll choose the folders to sync later.
Click Next.
When the screen displays a success message, click Finish to exit the New account wizard.