File Data Source Full Path of Top-level Directory

Hi There,
I am trying to create a File Data Source in BI Publisher.
Navigation: Admin --> File
The "Full Path of Top-level Directory" given for the demo_files (which comes with the product) is D:\OraHome_1\xmlp\XMLP\DemoFiles and all the demo reports are working fine.
However our BI Server is a Unix server and above path seems to be on windows server.
Please explain about this and how to locate the above path and place a new xml file.
Thanks
Krishna

if you are thinking of creating xml file in linux, and access in windows, you have to share the windows drive and mount them in linux.
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