Mount S3 bucket as network drive

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Hi,

I use

C:\rclone\rclone mount oliver:oliver/ U:\ --volname S3

to mount an S3 bucket as network drive. I found this command in a thread from 2018. Is this still the preferred way to do this?

Best regards,
Oliver

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hello and welcome to the forum,

as i understand it and based on testing,
--volname S3 does not create a network share,
--volname \\server\share does create a network share,

can always force network mode and volume name using
--network-mode --volname S3

these can be seen to ways

  1. using debug output by adding --vv to the command.
  2. running net use from the command line,

for example,

for the command
rclone mount wasabi01:zork z: -vv --volname S3
as part of the debug output would see
DEBUG : Network mode mounting is disabled

for the command
rclone mount wasabi01:zork z: -vv --volname \\server\share
as part of the debug output would see
DEBUG : Network mode mounting is enabled

for the command, net use
the command line output would be

Status       Local     Remote                    Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Z:        \\server\share            WinFsp.Np
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Thank you very much for the fast and helpful reply. Indeed, my command mounted the bucket but not in network mode. I modified it to

C:\rclone\rclone mount oliver:oliver/ U:\ --volname S3 --vfs-cache-mode full --network-mode -vv

Does the other version

--volname \\server\share

offer any advantage?

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yes, --volname allows to change \\server\share.

note: if the volume name, such as \\server\share, UNC format, then rclone forces network mode,
so no need for --network-mode.

that can be seen in the rclone debug output

rclone mount wasabi01:zork z: --volname=\\custom.name\share -vv
DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.58.0" starting with parameters ["c:\\data\\rclone\\rclone.exe" "mount" "wasabi01:zork" "z:" "--volname=\\\\custom.name\\share" "-vv"]
DEBUG : Forcing network mode due to network share (UNC) volume name
DEBUG : Network mode mounting is enabled
DEBUG : Mounting on "z:" ("\\custom.name\\share")
5

Although the S3 bucket is now mounted as a network drive I cannot make it "always available offline". The option is not available in he context menu although I have activated offline files in the control panel.

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This is something that would have to be handled by the WinFsp library behind rclone's mount feature on Windows, which I'm not sure it does currently. Unable to find much information regarding this, except the following issue, which although is not for the WinFsp Library itself is for a utility by the same author built on top of it, so same conclusion probably applies: Don't know :confounded:

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