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how to access a shared folder on Azure virtual machine from Local PC

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Friday, March 14, 2014 9:04 AM

Dears, 

we are testing windows Azure. in order to minimum our hardware investment, we plan to move our file server to windows Azure by creating virtual machine. this machine only act as file server , no web, no ftp, no sql.....

we want to create one shared folder on Azure , but each local PC which connect to internet can access file there. because our sales guy worked in their home and they need share files. 

I checked thru internet, but no good solution for us. Is there someone can give me a instruction with very simple way like we do it inside LAN?

thanks

jerry W.

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Monday, March 17, 2014 8:50 AM âś…Answered

Hi,

You can create a VPN connection between your Azure virtual network and on-premise, then create a share folder on the Azure VM and use Explorer on your local machine to access the shared folder. For more detailed information, please refer to the third-party link below:

Walkthrough: File Sharing Between Your Local Machine And Your Virtual Machines on Windows Azure

Note: Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. Please make sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any suggestions from the above link.

In addition, you can also mount Azure Blob Storage as Local Drive.

Best regards,

Susie

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 3:02 PM

Hi,

Is there any way to do this without having to rely on a VPN connection? It would be much better if that was possible because VPN connections are not reliable 100% of the time. 

Thank you.

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:42 PM

Even I'm looking for the same. Is there any option without VPN?

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019 1:51 PM | 1 vote

Hi all, 

It also works without VPN. Check the links above :

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