There are a few ways to mount an Azure FileShare on your local machine.Here we will demo a quick and easy way:
On your local machine where you want to mount your file share.
Right click ‘This PC’ and select ‘Map network drive…’
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Next, in Azure get the URL to map the network drive.
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Add this URL to the folder path.
1. Set the Drive letter to your preferred drive.
2. Remove ‘https:’
3. Update the ‘/’ to ‘\’ for all instances in the path.
4. Check ‘Connect using different credentials’
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Select ‘More choices’ > ‘Use a different account’
1. The user name is ‘Azure\<StorageAccountName>’
2. The password is the access key.
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The log in information can be found under ‘Access keys’ for the storage account
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Connecting should automatically show the file share.
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