How to connect to Azure Files (preview) share?

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I enabled Azure Files preview.

I follow this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx

I created new storage account called loremipsum. Using powershell, I created new storage share called loremipsum-01. Called New-AzureStorageDirectory command to test create directory. It succeeded.

I went to command prompt and called this command:

net use z: \\loremipsum.file.core.windows.net\loremipsum-01 /u:loremipsum accesskey==

Result: System error 64. Network name is undefined.

How should I connect to this share, so I can use it as mapped folder in explorer?

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2 Answers

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If I am not mistaken, you're trying to connect to Azure File Service share from your local computer. Please note that this is not possible today. You can only mount a share from the VM/Web or Worker Role running in the same region. From the blog post link above (Step 4: Use File Share):

Once your share is created, it can be accessed via the SMB or REST protocol from any Azure node (VM/Worker/Web role) hosted in the same region as the storage account hosting the share.

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You can access Azure file share from a windows machine by using Azure Storage Explorer. It is very easy to Install and use. If you want to mount It on any VM and want to use, then you can use How to mount wiki