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David Karam
David Karam

Reputation: 334

How can I configure Azure storage to be available over the Internet?

I configured an SMB file share with Azure storage. I cannot connect to it from outside the Azure cloud. The connect instructions explicitly say

To connect to this file share, run this command from any Windows virtual machine on the same subscription and location:

How can I configure Azure file storage to be available over the public Internet?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4995

Answers (4)

Krishna Prasad
Krishna Prasad

Reputation: 1

Here is the case for me....

When I tried with in Azure (My VM is on Azure and My Storage account is also on the same region) with SMB 3.0, I have been getting mount errors. But when I changed the SMB Version to 2.1, it got succeed. See Below with Examples

Eg:

Failing Command (with SMB 3.0 version) with in Azure

sudo mount -t cifs //storageaccountname.file.core.windows.net/shared /mnt/mount -o vers=3.0,username=xxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxx,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777

Result:

mount error(11): Resource temporarily unavailable Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Working Command (with SMB 2.1 version) with in Azure

sudo mount -t cifs //storageaccountname.file.core.windows.net/shared /mnt/mount -o vers=2.1,username=xxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxx,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777

Result:

It got mounted successfully

Upvotes: 0

Fried
Fried

Reputation: 1460

Port 445 was open on my router. It took me some time to find an additional option: Netbios must be set to "allowed"

Upvotes: 0

forester123
forester123

Reputation: 1579

To mount the file share from an on-premises client, you must first take these steps:

1.Install a version of Windows which supports SMB 3.0. Windows will leverage SMB 3.0 encryption to securely transfer data between your on-premises client and the Azure file share in the cloud.

2.Open Internet access for port 445 (TCP Outbound) in your local network, as is required by the SMB protocol

Then, on your on-premises client, you can just run the command as the connect instructions say:

net use <drive-letter>: \\<storage-account-name>.file.core.windows.net\<share-name> /u:<storage-account-name> <storage-account-key>

If you already enable port 445 but encounter the following error :
System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found.

You may need to check with your service provider, some Internet service providers may block port 445. You can refer to this articles for details.

Upvotes: 0

Gaurav Mantri
Gaurav Mantri

Reputation: 136246

If you're using SMB 3.0 protocol, you should be able to access the files from outside of Azure by mounting the share as a network drive. You may have to open up TCP port 445 on your firewall though.

Please see this link for more details: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-files/#mount-the-file-share

Upvotes: 4

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