topic Re: Read from Azure File Share in Connectivity & Data Prep

Read from Azure File Share

odbc — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:36:34 GMT

Hello,

We are trying to mount an Azure File Share to our Qlik Server. Our Qlik Server version is 13.62.7. We have successfully mounted the Azure File Share to the Windows Server. However, when we try to create a connection we get an Access Denied error. We are using the UNC connection "\\some_server\some_folder" string. We can access files through Windows Explorer. We mounted the share under the Qlik service account.

We cannot use any other connectors as our version does not support them. 😞 This appears to be our only option.

We have used other mounted drives successfully. Just not an Azure File Share.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Read from Azure File Share

oknotsen — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 06:28:44 GMT

Did anyone find a solution to this yet?

I have a customer in the same / similar situation: Access to the filer share as a regular windows map yet not able to connect to it via Qlik as we can with every other server or network drive / folder.

Re: Read from Azure File Share

t_donnet — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:53:00 GMT

Hello,

any update? or solution ?

Re: Read from Azure File Share

odbc — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:03:58 GMT

Yes we did it successfully. We have an on prem Qlik Server. If I remember correctly (we set it up a while ago) you must mount the file share under the root user. Be sure to mount under all servers ( I think).

Reach out to Qlik support they gave us an internal PDF that is titled "Using Azure File share with Qlik Sense shared persistence" that outlined the process.