Mounted a Azure File share and made it persistent across restarts now suddenly this morning the file share is disconnected from my VM(This VM is a single and only instance of VMSS )

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Mounted a Azure File share and made it persistent across restarts now suddenly this morning the file share is disconnected from my VM(This VM is a single and only instance of VMSS )

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Hi @Raghava Sai Akula

Thank you for asking this question on the **Microsoft Q&A Platform. **

Usually, this happens when the SAS token expires.

Also from your PC do the following test

$resourceGroupName = "<your-resource-group-name>"  
$storageAccountName = "<your-storage-account-name>"  
  
# This command requires you to be logged into your Azure account and set the subscription your storage account is under, run:  
# Connect-AzAccount -SubscriptionId ‘xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx’  
# if you haven't already logged in.  
$storageAccount = Get-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName  
  
# The ComputerName, or host, is <storage-account>.file.core.windows.net for Azure Public Regions.  
# $storageAccount.Context.FileEndpoint is used because non-Public Azure regions, such as sovereign clouds  
# or Azure Stack deployments, will have different hosts for Azure file shares (and other storage resources).  
Test-NetConnection -ComputerName ([System.Uri]::new($storageAccount.Context.FileEndPoint).Host) -Port 445  

If the connection was successful, you should see the following output:

ComputerName     : <your-storage-account-name>  
RemoteAddress    : <storage-account-ip-address>  
RemotePort       : 445  
InterfaceAlias   : <your-network-interface>  
SourceAddress    : <your-ip-address>  
TcpTestSucceeded : True  

If it is not successful, then you have a communication issue.

Please review the documentation for Troubleshoot Azure Files problems in Windows (SMB)

Let me know how it goes.

Hope this helps!

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