Hello all,

I have signed up for the preview, created a new Storage account, and created multiple containers. When I look in the old portal I see the preview URL listed, and in the new I see each container listed under shared resources. It all seems correct, but when I do the net use command it does not work..

I get back the error - System error 53, Network path not found.

The command looks correct from what I have seen online, but regardless of which container I try it fails with the same error.

" net use p: <a href="file://\\.file.core.windows.net\<container">\\<accountname>.file.core.windows.net\<container name> /u:<accountname> <key> "

The Os is is a Spanish language versin so it comes back like this..

Error de sistema 53.No se ha encontrado la ruta de acceso de la red.

ANy ideas out there ??

• Edited by Shizzle-Dude Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:35 PM

Well the formatter for this frum butchered the net path, but it is double backslash followed by the URL listed in the new condole without the https://

I also forgot to mention that the shared reas work fine from Powershell.. I was able to crate them, crate folders, and upload and list files.. Even so, I cannot get at them with net USE from a VM rendering them useless to me...

• Edited by Shizzle-Dude Saturday, March 21, 2015 10:00 PM

Hi,

Are you trying to mount a share from your local computer or from a VM in Azure? If you're trying to mount a share from your local computer, then I'm afraid it won't work. You can only mount a share from a VM running in Azure. Moreover the VM from where you're trying to mount must be in the same region as the storage account.

Regards,
Malar.

• Proposed as answer by Michael CurdMicrosoft employee, Moderator Monday, March 30, 2015 5:50 AM

Hello Malar,

I was trying to mount from a VM, and I have confirmed that the VM and the storage account for the Shared resource are in the same Region (Brazil south).

Unfortunately I can't do any testing on it right now because my credit ran out..

Any other reasons you know of why this would not work in Brazil south ?

Thanks,

Dave

What is the powershell script that you are using to test that comes back successful? 

Did you enable the folder as a file share (step 3)  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx