Mounting TNT Drive

How to mount Amazon S3 Bucket as a Windows Drive

From this tutorial you will learn how to mount an Amazon S3 Bucket as a Network Drive under Windows (or how to map an S3 Bucket as a Windows Drive).

First of all you need to download and install TntDrive.

The following window appears when you start TntDrive:

TntDrive Dashboard - displays all mapped drives and lets you add new mapped drives

 

This is the main application window, it shows all mapped drives and lets you add new mapped drives or edit existing drives.

To Add new Mapped Drive

Click Add New Mapped Drive, corresponding dialog will open:

Add New Mapped Drive dialog

 

1. Choose the storage account

TntDrive supports various storage types, please choose the storage account you want to work with. If you adding the first drive, you need to add the storage account first.

2. Select an Amazon S3 Bucket to map

Click on the folder icon to get buckets list from the storage and choose desired bucket and optional path. You may also enter the bucket name and path manually.

Select Amazon S3 Bucket and optional directory/subdirectory

 

If you do not have any buckets on your account or need to create the new one, just type the bucket name in the corresponding text-box and it will be created automatically.

You may also specify optional directory/subdirectory after the bucket name

Special note for IAM users: if you do not have permissions to get buckets list or create new buckets, you need to enter existing bucket name.

3. Specify Mapped Drive Letter

This letter will be assigned to the mapped drive.

 

Select the letter that will be assigned to new mapped drive

 

4. Click Add new drive

Click the Add new drive button

 

Your Amazon S3 bucket will appear in My Computer

Amazon S3 bucket appears in My Computer as a mapped drive