How to map a Azure Blob Storage account as a network drive?

Question

I have created a Azure Storage Blob, which I want to map to specific User Accounts as a Network Dirve, but I am unsure how to accomplish this. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Hi

you can do this natively from Linux Systems using NFS :

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/network-file-system-protocol-support-how-to

For Windows-based systems, there is no native way to do this without creating an Azure File Share in the storage account, however you could use a 3rd party tool such as Cloudberry to access the Storage Account directly:

https://dev.to/shankarsurya035/mount-azure-blob-storage-container-as-drive-on-windows--37h8

Hope this helps,

Thanks

Michael Durkan

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Answer 2

Hello

Azure storage accounts support Blob storage, File storage, Queues, and files.

I'm not aware of network drive support for the Blob storage.

In contrast, the File storage is designed for this feature!

Just create a File share under File storage in your storage account, you only need to supply the name of that share.

From there, open the new file share and click 'Connect' in the menu.

There you will see a description of how to consume this fileshare in various Operating systems, including scripts to set this up:

Notice there are several references to the security requirements.

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