Folks, I just read about Azure File Storage and I got all excited at the possibility of creating a familiar mapped drive letter to the cloud. In the portal I created the File share, uploaded some files and issued a net use command which failed with error 53. It turns out I didn't read the fine print in my excitement, which says:
*To connect to this file share, run this command from any Windows virtual machine on the same subscription and location* So you can't just mount it from your home PC, only from a suitable VM. I suppose there are security and performance issues, but it's a damn shame as we could really have put this to good use as a kind of "giant file share" for apps written in C++ with no code changes. I just want to be sure that this is all true and there's not some less restrictive way of using Azure File Storage. Is there some other magic way of having a file share in the cloud from anywhere? *Greg K*
