This article describes how to create a Globus Collection to access your Research folder(s) in Research shares using either the Globus Web Interface or the Globus Connect Personal app.
Prerequisites:
All users should have access to Research Folder on either '//files22.brown.edu/Research' OR '//files22.brown.edu/LRSResearch' shares. If you don’t have one, please contact your local ITSC support or [email protected] to request access to an existing folder or create a new one. More Info.
All users should have uidnumber and gidnumber associated with their shortid in Brown
AD. Without uidnumber and gidnumber, Globus will not be able to authenticate to the storage.
1. Creating a Globus Account
Note: If you are already a subscriber of Globus service and have a Globus account, some of the permissions pages might not show up during this process.
1.2. Select Brown University as the Organization, then click 'Continue' in Figure 2.
PLEASE DO NOT USE "Sign in with Google"
Figure 2. Globus Web App Login
1.3. The page will redirect to the SSO Authentication page. Use your AD credentials.
Figure 3. SSO Page
2. Navigating to the base (mapped) collection
2.1. Once logged in, navigate to 'File Manager', and enter 'BrownU_GlobusMEP_F22_Research' OR 'BrownU_GlobusMEP_F22_LRSResearch' in Collection Search as shown in Figure 4:
Figure 4: Collection Search results
2.2. Click the appropriate collection in the list: BrownU_GlobusMEP_F22_{Research/LRSResearch}, if it is your first time accessing the BrownU_GlobusMEP_Files collection (Step 5 - 7), click the 'Continue' button in Figure 5 to be authenticated.
Note: You can skip steps 5-7, if you have accessed 'BrownU_GlobusMEP_F22_*' collections before; you will not be prompted for authentication.
2.3. Click the "<your_brown_shortid>@brown.edu" in Figure 6.
2.4. Click the 'Allow' button in Figure 7 to grant permissions to Globus Web App. You should read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
If you don’t have your ‘uidnumber’ and ‘gidnumber' set properly, you will not be able to create a collection. You might end up with an error page like 'Identity set contains an identity from an allowed domain, but it does not map to a valid username for this connector' OR 'An unexpected error has occurred'. Please contact [email protected] or your local ITSC to resolve the issue.
2.5. After authentication, the collection is displayed in File Manager as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Folder Selection
2.6. In the 'Path' textbox, please enter your ResearchFolderName. For Example: '"CIS_Storage" as in \\files22.brown.edu\Research\CIS_Storage, as illustrated in Figure 9.
Figure 9: Select Research Folder
2.7. Once you browse to the appropriate folder, you can create a Globus Guest Collection or a Bookmark. If the main purpose for using Globus is to share/provide access with/to other users to do data transfers, then you need to create a Globus Guest Collection. If the purpose is to browse the folder or do data transfers personally, creating a bookmark would suffice.
