Hi Greg, A quick search seems to indicate that http://www.cloudberrylab.com/windows-azure-cloud-drive-desktop-software.aspx can deal with this, for $30 per machine. I haven't found anything else that does, but your Google-fu may be better than mine.
Cheers Dave On 29 February 2016 at 10:53, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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* >
