Unable to Mount blobfuse on redhat server Error : 403

Question

We are facing issue in mounting blobfuse on redhat server below is the error output, from same storage we are able to mount on other 3 container with same credentials
Error code - HTTP 403;
Storage server request ID - 33da8899-501e-0033466-7079-8b7487000033400;
Blob container - <Conatiner name>;
Blob path - ;

Unable to start blobfuse. Failed to connect to the storage container. There might be something wrong about the storage config, please double check the storage account name, account key/sas token/OAuth access token and container name. error = 403

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Answer 1

Cause: The following error is observed when mounting a storage container as a BlobFuse mount:
As have observed the impacted Storage Account ‘<Account name>’ has its Firewall enabled and currently, does not allow the source subnet to connect.

Resolution : If the identified source subnet is confirmed to be correct, please allow this subnet through the Azure Storage Firewall and retry the mounting operation..

Note: Blobfuse stores all open file contents in the temporary path. Make sure to have enough space to accommodate all open files.

Once you have installed blobfuse, configure your account credentials either in the template provided in blobfuse folder (connection.cfg), or in the environment variables. For brevity, let's use the following environment variables for authentication using account name and key:

Additional information: Here are the steps to mount on Redhat Linux (This is temp mount, not persisting)

subscription-manager register --username <> --password <password removed> --auto-attach   
sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm   
sudo yum install blobfuse fuse   
   
sudo mkdir /mnt/blobfusetmp   
sudo chown <youruser> /mnt/blobfusetmp  
  
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=1g tmpfs /mnt/blobfusetmp   
   
export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=xwfileping    
export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY=<Key removed>   
   
blobfuse /blobfuse --tmp-path=/mnt/blobfusetmp -o attr_timeout=240 -o entry_timeout=240 -o negative_timeout=120 -o allow_other --container-name=transfer --log-level=LOG_DEBUG --file-cache-timeout-in-seconds=120    

 

To mount a persisting folder, you may download the https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-fuse/blob/master/mount.sh, and use credentials in a file method to mount the folder.