Reading a file directly from Azure File Share

Question

Is there a way to read a file directly from Azure File Share?

The only examples I see are to download the file and then read it locally on your machine, but that does not seem feasible long term for my use case. What other methods exist? I saw REST in the documentation but it does not go further into how to set that up?

Answer 1

@RebelliousPlum Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A. I understand that you want to read a file from Azure File Share directly instead of accessing it locally and want to know how to achieve the same.

To do that, you can use tools like Storage Explorer to access files in your file share. From your application, you can use storage client libraries, REST APIs, PowerShell, or Azure CLI to access your files in the Azure file share.

You can also configure Azure Files to allow access to files via REST (HTTP/HTTPS) using SAS keys. Get File (REST API) - Azure Storage | Microsoft Learn

For web browsers they may run into a conditional headers issue and the workaround is here.

Hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any further questions and we will be glad to assist you further. Thank you!

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