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Managing file shares

Managing file shares - Azure Tutorial

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Managing file shares

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- [Instructor] Now let's look at how to manage your Azure file shares from Windows, Linux, and MacOS. You can connect to your Azure file share with Windows, including Windows client and Windows server. And all this information is available by selecting connect from your file share page in the Azure portal. For Windows, you need to ensure that port 445 is open. Azure files uses the SMB and NFS protocols. SMB communicates over TCP port 445. So you need to ensure your firewall or your ISP provider is not blocking TCP port 445 from the client machine. Azure file shares can also be mounted in Linux distributions using the SIFs kernel client. And this can be done on demand with mount command or on boot to be persistent by creating an entry in etc/fs tab. You can also mount file shares in Linux with SMB and NFS protocols. For MacOS with High Sierra version 10.13 or later, there are two different ways to mount an Azure file share. You can use the finder UI or the terminal. MacOS will use only…

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