Unable to connect Azure blob storage through SFTP

Question

Hello Team,

I've enabled SFTP in Azure blob storage and trying to connect from Filezilla to blob through SFTP and getting below error

Example: username: xyz

storage account name: abc

Error:

Status:     Connecting to wuskusdsasalesforce01.blob.core.windows.net...

Status:     Using username "xyz".

Error:      Could not connect to server

Status:     Waiting to retry...

Status:     Connecting to abc.blob.core.windows.net...

Response:   fzSftp started, protocol_version=11

Command:    open "******@abc.blob.core.windows.net" 22

Status:     Using username "xyz".

Error:      Could not connect to server

Status:     Disconnected from server

Status:     Connecting to abc.blob.core.windows.net...

Status:     Using username "abc.xyz".

Command:    Pass: ********************************

Error:      Could not connect to server

Status:     Waiting to retry...

Status:     Connecting to abc.blob.core.windows.net...

Response:   fzSftp started, protocol_version=11

Command:    open "abc.******@abc.blob.core.windows.net" 22

Status:     Using username "abc.xyz".

Command:    Pass: ********************************

Error:      Could not connect to server

Status:     Disconnected from server

Status:     Connecting to abc.blob.core.windows.net...

Status:     Using username "abc.xyz".

Error:      Could not connect to server

Status:     Waiting to retry...

Status:     Connecting to abc.blob.core.windows.net...

Response:   fzSftp started, protocol_version=11

Command:    keyfile "C:\Users\pqr\Desktop\KIA\xyzkey"

Command:    open "abc.******@abc.blob.core.windows.net" 22

Status:     Using username "abc.xyz".

Error:      Could not connect to server

Answer 1

Hi,

First, please make sure on Networking blade that you have the public IP address of the client PC is allowed by the firewall if Enabled from selected virtual networks and IP addresses is selected OR select Enabled from all networks

Please see example below for how to configure:

Azure Storage Account

Username: localuser1

Storage account name: storageacct1

Container name: container1

Enter the following into FileZilla

Host: sftp://storageacct1.blob.core.windows.net

Username: storageacct1.container1.localuser1

Password: yourSFTPpassword

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Thanks.

-TP