It is for use within azure only. You can attach the shares to VMs. It also has a lot of other caveats re single identity to connect to it so no acls etc.
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, 9:18 AM Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is anyone here using Azure files and mounting shares are drive letters? I > ask because this feature could be a great way of migrating one of our > legacy apps into Azure. Web searches hint that you both can and can't map > an Azure file share as a drive on your desktop PC. Some say that Windows 10 > supports SMB 3.0 so you can mount this like: > > net use y: \\*myaccount*.file.core.windows.net\test-share-1 /u:*username* > *password* > > So I tried it, and not surprisingly it thinks for a while and says "System > error 53 ... network path was not found". I can't see how that would ever > work and resolve that path, but apparently people are doing it. Has anyone > done this, not from inside an Azure VM, but from your desktop PC? > > *GK* > -- David Connors da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
