Azure SAMBA File Share | Pragmatic AI Solutions

Setup quick and easy way to mount a SAMBA (SMB) file share in an Azure VM with a pre-configured BASH script. The shell script will allow you to automatically mount the share and save your work. This type of workflow allows your infrastructures and virtual machines to be resilient to failure.

This is a short video that covers only setting up SMB on a VM. For a full video with setting up the VM, SSH access, and connect a remote compute to VSCode go here

Follow along with more examples in the Github repository

This video covers:

Create a Storage Account
Create a File Share for a Storage Account
Use SSH to connect to a remote Virtual Machine
Use a pre-configured shell script to mount the share
Verify files and directories through the Azure portal

00:00 Introduction

00:26 Azure Portal Virtual Machines
01:00 SSH Connection string
01:41 Create a Storage Account in Azure
03:18 Create a File Share (SAMBA) in Azure
04:12 SAMBA connection snippet in BASH (Shell script) for mounting
05:06 Create the script in the Virtual Machine
05:34 Mount the SAMBA share and verify it is mounted in /mnt/
06:45 Verify created files are available in the Azure Portal for the File Share




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