{"id":3504,"date":"2017-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:51:24","slug":"on-premises-azure-files-access-on-linux-update-and-new-troubleshooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/on-premises-azure-files-access-on-linux-update-and-new-troubleshooter\/","title":{"rendered":"On-premises Azure Files access on Linux update and new troubleshooter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We announced the availability of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-file-storage-on-premises-access-for-ubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linux on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files<\/a>&nbsp;for the first OS distribution \u2013 Ubuntu 17.04, in April. Today, we are happy to share that more Linux distributions now include this functionality, which will allow on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For security reasons, connections to Azure Files shares are blocked if the communication channel isn\u2019t encrypted while the connection attempt is not made from the same data center on which Azure File shares reside. Channel encryption is not provided if the user\u2019s client OS doesn\u2019t support SMB encryption, and Linux did not support this yet. We have collaborated with Linux community to implement encryption Linux CIFS. 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You can point it to Azure Files and get an SMB\/CIFS share mounted on your Linux VM, or mount the same share on Windows and share data across platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-getting-started-and-diagnostic-tool-for-linux\">New getting started and diagnostic tool for Linux<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are also making it easy for you to check if your Linux environment is correctly set up, and has all the pre-requisites to use SMB by releasing a&nbsp;<strong>brand new troubleshooter tool for Linux<\/strong>, similar to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/new-troubleshooting-diagnostics-for-azure-files-mounting-errors-on-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Windows troubleshooter<\/a>&nbsp;that we announced in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We published a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/storage\/files\/storage-troubleshoot-linux-file-connection-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">troubleshooting for Linux guide<\/a>&nbsp;some time ago. Today, we are releasing the Azure toubleshooter tool in order for you to rest assured that your environment is correctly set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can download&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.technet.microsoft.com\/Troubleshooting-tool-for-02184089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AzFileDiagnostics<\/a>&nbsp;from Script Center today and simply run the following command and that\u2019s it. The tool will tell you what needs to be done for mounting your file share. It will then mount the file share for you, if you wish to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nchmod +x AzFilesDiagnostics.sh\n.\/AzFilesDiagnostics.sh\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2f94da71-5e69-4fce-80b8-3fcd53a30780.webp\" alt=\"text\" class=\"wp-image-11006 webp-format\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2f94da71-5e69-4fce-80b8-3fcd53a30780.webp\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary-and-next-steps\">Summary and next steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azure is a first-class platform for Linux and open source technology. Microsoft has been constantly contributing to the Linux open source community to provide the finest experience for our Azure Linux customers and we look forward to continue doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are excited to see the tremendous adoption of Azure File Storage. You can try Azure File storage by getting started in under five minutes. Further information and detailed documentation links are provided below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/storage\/storage-how-to-use-files-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Use Azure File on Linux<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/documentation\/videos\/azurecon-2015-azure-files-storage-a-frictionless-cloud-smb-file-system-for-windows-and-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Files Storage: a frictionless cloud SMB file system for Windows and Linux<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/inside-azure-file-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inside Azure File Storage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will continue to enhance the Azure File Storage based on your feedback. 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