.. _Mounting S3 Storage with Mountain Duck:

Mounting S3 Storage with Mountain Duck
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Mountain Duck enables you to mount and access |product_name| S3 storage as a regular disk drive. Do the following:

#. If your service provider has provided you with an SSL certificate, install it.

#. In Mountain Duck, click **New Bookmark**.

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#. In the properties window, select **Amazon S3** profile from the first drop-down list and specify the following parameters:

   - **Nickname** of the disk drive,
   - endpoint DNS name in the **Server** field,
   - access key ID in the **Username** field;

   and click **Connect**.

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#. In the login window, specify **Secret Access Key** and click **Login**.

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Mountain Duck will mount the S3 storage as a disk drive. On the disk, you can manage buckets and store files in them.

.. _Creating S3 Buckets on Mounted S3 Storage:

Creating S3 Buckets on Mounted S3 Storage
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Windows and Mac OS X, operating systems supported by MountainDuck, treat buckets as folders in case the S3 storage is mounted as a disk drive. In both operating systems, the default folder name contains spaces. This violates bucket naming conventions (see :ref:`S3 Bucket and Key Naming Policies`), therefore you cannot create a new bucket directly on the mounted S3 storage. To create a bucket on a mounted S3 storage, create a folder with a name complying with DNS naming conventions elsewhere and copy it to the root of the mounted S3 storage.