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

Useful links:

• Github Repository with summary instructions
  
• Create a File share documentation on Azure
  
• Data Science VMs in Azure
  

Table of Contents

Lesson 1

“Azure Samba Share”