Mounting Azure File Shares to Linux machines

1.Login to Azure portal and your vm
ssh azureuser@(public_ip_adress)
2. Install cifs-utils
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
3. Create directory same as your file share in Azure portal “linuxshare02”
sudo mkdir /mnt/linuxshare02
4. Make a link to our “linuxshare02”
go to storage account and copy the URL from propertiies
sudo mount-t cifs (link without https://) /mnt/linuxshare02 -o ver=3.0,username(storageaccount name),password=( storage account key),dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,serverino
example in my case:
sudo mount -t cifs //storagecli777.file.core.windows.net/linuxshare02 /mnt/linuxshare02 -o vers=3.0,username=storagecli777,password=WnyV7MN7ECkijf79O7SqjIRoeTHIu8vXMvzvnrtj4JewFhGaeK4ncZ6RjFaOjqEJdGNPpaIEFiDZF/ZlK27/Ng==,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,serverino
5. Check
df -h
6. Create test files
cd /mnt/linuxshare01
touch testfile.txt
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