Map ADLS gen2 as network drive or shared drive

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Map ADLS gen2 as network drive or shared drive

Prakash14 116

Is it feasible to Map the ADLS gen2 storage account as network map drive (or local drive / shared drive )in windows machine ?

Any options to mount ADLS gen2 storage account on a filesystem (like NFS or SMB) ?

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2022-11-07T05:48:39.56+00:00
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2022-11-07T05:48:39.56+00:00

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Hello @Prakash14 ,

Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

You can mount SMB Azure File Share on windows/ Linux/MacOS.

For more details, refer to Mount SMB Azure file share on Windows and video on How to map an Azure v2 storage share to a Windows drive letter.

If want to access the ADLS gen2 storage account from windows machines - easiest way is using SFTP protocal.

SFTP support requires hierarchical namespace to be enabled. Hierarchical namespace organizes objects (files) into a hierarchy of directories and subdirectories in the same way that the file system on your computer is organized. Different protocols are supported by the hierarchical namespace. SFTP is one of these available protocols. The following image shows storage access via multiple protocols and REST APIs. For easier reading, this image uses the term Gen2 REST to refer to the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 REST API.

For more details, refer to SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) support for Azure Blob Storage.

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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Prakash14 116 Reputation points

2022-11-10T08:38:05.023+00:00

i am abe to map the drive through fileshare option. Still what my need is accessing the adls containers directly as a mapped drive .
I want to directly map the storage account containers as network drive.
Here what fileshare does is ,we have to create container within that and then mapping the drive.
PRADEEPCHEEKATLA-MSFT 59,341 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-11-14T09:52:22.537+00:00

Hello @Prakash14 ,

When you are able to map the drive through fileshare - you can directly access the adls container from the drive.

What do you mean by adls containers directly as a mapped drive?
Prakash14 116 Reputation points

2022-11-16T13:42:51.063+00:00

I am not able to access the adls container directly. Within fileshare ( from ADLS account) , i have to create a new container and copy the data from ADLS container to fileshare container. Is there a way to directly mount/share the container ?
Prakash14 116 Reputation points

2022-11-22T16:22:19.053+00:00

Any ways to achieve this ?
PRADEEPCHEEKATLA-MSFT 59,341 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-11-28T06:36:15.497+00:00

Hello @Prakash14 ,

Unfortuantely, you cannot access the ADLS container directory using the file share option. You need to use the SFTP to access the container.

Hope this helps.

Map ADLS gen2 as network drive or shared drive

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