Is there any way to create a drive in windows azure, and then that the users at the company can map a drive in their windows explorer, and upload documents there?
If so, how can I do that?
At first I thought you could do that through Azure File Service announced recently but then I found out that you can only mount in the VMs running in the same region as the storage account.
You may want to look at Gladinet Cloud Desktop tool which allows you to mount a blob storage account as a drive on the local computer. More information about this can be found here: http://www.gladinet.com/p/map_azure_storage_as_virtual_drive.htm.
Other than this, AFAIK there are no other ways to map a storage account as a drive on your local computer.
Related
I know this is possible to link Azure blob to our local computer but can't remember how
My goal is to make possible to access blob like it is local disk, for example here i can access to a blob from local desktop
edit: I don't want to use azure storage explorer
Firstly there is a charge way to mount blob to local, you could refer to this blog: Use CloudBerry Drive to create a local mapped network drive to Azure Blob Storage.
Except this, you could choose to use Rclone to implement this. Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories. However fro now this service could not Run mount as a daemon, means could not mount automatically with system startup.
I mount one container to my local.
In fact, it's possible using Azure Files. You can mount it using Powershell or map a network drive:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-how-to-use-files-windows
EDIT: Full answer:
Use the storage account name prepended with AZURE\ as the username and a storage account key as the password:
Working in IaaS environment in AZURE and need to create a shared file for applications that will be sharing the same files uploaded by end users. The file share needs to be scene on various servers and appear as a fixed drive letter or mount point. Already created a Storage account and a file share in azure but can not overcome the issue that the mapped drive is associated with a users profile.
Was wondering if any has come up with a solution. ... I'm the system administrator assigned to this task and can do things in powershell or pass code information to developers for their review.
Did not resolve issue, developers are going to use Blog storage.
The trick with this was getting the application to see the drive letter. For us having a local user run as a service with the associated Azure file share mapping might have worked
NOTE to map the azure drive a use would need the Azure Storage account and Key generated for that account to access it.
We had try Microsoft's Azure platform for our startup.
A developer created servers and storage among other things in the account.
I have with the same login account a One Drive account as well with personal stuff.
I have stopped the servers and I want to delete the storage at Azure, is it safe to delete it without deleting my storage on One Drive?
Are they separated? So I can delete the Azure's storage without deleting the things I have on one Drive?
Best Regards,
Daniel
Azure storage and One Drive are totally different services. Azure is a paid, commercial, storage solution and any changes you make there won't affect your One Drive (which is a targeted at personal use and free, i think)
I'm looking for the purpose of a Storage account in Azure. Because I have a problem with.
My account is limited to 1 Storage account, and apparently I'm already using it, but I don't know why, I don't think I need it.
I have one virtual machine with a cloud service and the storage account. I would like to create another virtual machine but I can't because of the Storage account limit.
May I delete the Storage accout? I don't want to break my virtual machine.
Few months ago, I was able to create two virtual machines, so I don't understand why I can't anymore, my Azure account didn't change. Thanks.
Storage Account is "the storage" where Azure puts your Virtual Machine disks (=vhd files).
On the same Storage Account you can create more than one Virtual Machine.
I've created two virtual machines on Window Azure Portal.
Is that possible to access azure blob storage through network shared files (UNC path) between these virtual machines?
Thanks
This new feature may be of some interest.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx
Looks like you can create a new share that's backed by azure blob and then mount it on give vm's.
Have a look at http://azuredrive.codeplex.com/
It allows you to mount Blob Storage Accounts as Mapped Drives.