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There are a lot of other options for accessing the object store, including both free and paid software. UAMS IT has a limited number of licenses for S3 Browser, which is a GUI-based Windows tool for access accessing ROSS. We do not endorse any particular tool. Users may pick the tool that they feel most comfortable with.
A Namespace Administrator can also set up a Bucket with File Access enabled at Bucket creation time using the ECS Portal. After creating the file-enabled Bucket, the Namespace Administrator for the Namespace in which the Bucket resides can set up, for example, an NFS share using that Bucket along with user ID mapping. Users can then mount and access the bucket using the NFS protocol, similar to any other network file share. Enabling a bucket for file access does seem to add a tiny bit of overhead to that bucket, and does disable a few advanced features such as S3 object versioning. And accessing a bucket via NFS is slower than accessing using the object protocols (e.g. S3 or Swift). If an Object User needs file access, they might consider using using rclone mounting instead of the NFS mounting, as it might be faster.
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