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# Mount an S3 Bucket on Windows

ในกรณีที่ต้องการ mount S3 บน Windows OS สามารถดำเนินการได้ตามขั้นตอนด้านล่าง

## Prerequisite

* Create s3 bucket  (<https://docs-epc.gitbook.io/ncs-documents/storage/object-storage-s3/create-an-object-storage-bucket> )&#x20;
* Create an Object Storage Sub-User (<https://docs-epc.gitbook.io/ncs-documents/storage/object-storage-s3/create-an-object-storage-sub-user> )

## Instructions

### 1. Install Rclone

* Download the Rclone from the official website (<https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-windows-amd64.zip>).&#x20;
* Extract the downloaded zip file. (Ex. C:\Program Files\rclone\\)&#x20;
* open Command Prompt (CMD) and change the directory to ( C:\Program Files\rclone\rclone-v1.69.2-windows-amd64 )  then type command  rclone&#x20;

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### 2. Configure Rclone with S3

Now that we have installed rclone, we will continue with the configuration by typing config command  rclone config  &#x20;

* select n for a new remote configuration.&#x20;

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* give a name to the connection (e.g. S3)&#x20;

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* select 4 for “Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Provider&#x20;

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* select 1 for the S3 provider.&#x20;

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* select 2 to use AWS credentials from the Instance Profile we defined earlier.&#x20;

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* Use the access\_key\_id and secret\_access\_key of your Sub-User

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* select 12 (ap-southeast-1)  AWS region in which the S3 bucket has been created.&#x20;

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* Specify a name for the connection: s3-bkk.nipa.cloud&#x20;

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* Leave the remaining fields blank, then press Enter to continue.&#x20;

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* finally, skip the advanced configuration by typing n. We get a summary of the configuration. If everything is fine we can type y. Otherwise n to restart the configuration process.&#x20;

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### 3. Mount the S3 Bucket as a Windows Drive

In order to make rclone work we need [winfsp](http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/rel/), an open source Windows File System Proxy which makes it easy to write user space filesystems for Windows. It provides a FUSE emulation layer which rclone uses in combination with cgofuse.&#x20;

To get rid of this error, we need to download and install [winfsp-1.7.20172.msi](https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/releases/download/v1.7/winfsp-1.7.20172.msi).&#x20;

&#x20;

Mount the S3 Bucket as a Windows Drive by command:&#x20;

```
 rclone mount <configuration_name>:<bucket_name>  X:  --vfs-cache-mode full ---links 
```

ตัวอย่าง

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### 4. Verify Mount

Open File Explorer, We can now see a new disk mounted on the instance.&#x20;

&#x20;Let’s drop a file at the root of the disk to see if everything is working.&#x20;

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Referrence <https://blog.spikeseed.cloud/mount-s3-as-a-disk/>