Map Network drive to Azure Blob Storage using SAS

Question

Azure SAS

From what I have read you can put a SAS URI in the browser and bring up the file

You can also create a SAS with list and read permission to the container. In .NET I follow how to use that.

Can you map that SAS list and read as a network drive in Windows Explorer and see the file?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Map Network drive to Azure Blob Storage using SAS.

Azure Blob Storage doesn't support to be mapped as a network drive in the Windows Explorer currently. If we want to mange Azure blob we can use Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer. for more information refer document.

If we want to map a network drive in Windows Explorer, please use Azure file storage, more detail about Azure file storage please refer to document.

net use <drive-letter>: \\<storage-account-name>.file.core.windows.net\<share-name> /u:AZURE\<storage-account-name> <storage-account-key>
example :
net use z: \\samples.file.core.windows.net\logs /u:AZURE\samples <storage-account-key>

Note:

• Install a version of Windows which supports SMB 3.0. Windows will leverage SMB 3.0 encryption to securely transfer data between your on-premises client and the Azure file share in the cloud.
• Open Internet access for port 445 (TCP Outbound) in your local network, as is required by the SMB protocol.