Google Drive File Stream Proxy
Drive and Sites firewall and proxy settings – Google Support
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For users on your network to access Google Drive, Google Docs editors, and new Google Sites, connect your firewall rules to the following hosts and ports. Otherwise, users might be blocked or denied access from these services.
For the following hosts, [N] means any single decimal digit and * means any string not containing a period.
*
(needed only for Backup and Sync)
*. clients[N]
*.
lh[N]
[N]
clients[N]
About IP addresses and proxies
Techniques that Drive and Sites use to connect to Google servers depend on the browser, browser version, networking conditions, and so on.
IPs
The IP addresses that some domain names resolve to don’t necessarily fall within any given address range.
Other Google properties might use the IP addresses that Drive and Sites use.
Even if you don’t see activity at the addresses listed above, there could be future activity.
Proxies
Drive sync applications support all unauthenticated proxies configured by the operating system.
Backup and Sync supports only DNS-based distribution of Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) files. PAC distribution over Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is not supported.
Google Drive for desktop proxies
Drive for desktop encrypts all network traffic and validates host certificates to protect against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. If you deploy to a network that uses a decrypting proxy, you should configure the TrustedRootCertsFile setting for Drive for desktop.
Drive for desktop supports both Domain Name System (DNS) and DHCP proxy discovery on Microsoft Windows and DNS proxy discovery on Apple OSX.
Related topics
Configure Google Drive for desktop
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Unable to access or browse Google File Stream (G Suite)
Unable to access or browse Google File Stream (G Suite)
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Products
ProxySG Software – SGOS
Issue/Introduction
Users are not able to access Google Drive File Stream attached as network share on user’s computer. Files are not listed in the directories, or the directories are not opening. Files are not opening, but some of them are.
Cause
This issue might be caused by inaccessible URLs which Drive File Stream needs in order to operate properly. In order for users on your network to access Google Drive and Google Docs editors, your proxy and firewall rules should connect to the hosts and ports listed in the G Suite deployment guide for proxy and firewall. Otherwise, users may be blocked or denied access from these services.
Source: Drive File Stream is not able to properly respond to the 407 authentication challenge. Consider bypassing authentication for the URLs listed below in the “Solution” section.
Environment
Google Drive File Stream installed on Windows or Mac computers
Resolution
Allow for the access to the following URLs. Possibly, there may also be a need to bypass authentication for the URLs specified below.
For the following hosts, [N] means any single decimal digit and * means any string not containing a period.
*
(needed only for Backup and Sync)
*. clients[N]
*.
lh[N]
[N]
clients[N]
NOTE: The list above could be made shorter if you decide to use * which will cover most of the URLs listed above.
For bypassing authentication based on the destination URl, refer to the following KB
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Google Drive for desktop release notes
These release notes reflect additions and improvements in each version of Google Drive for desktop (formerly Drive File Stream). If you see a number between the listed releases, that version has no significant difference from the prior release.
We typically wait until a new version of Drive for desktop is 100% rolled out to existing customers before providing the new app for download. Until we reach 100% roll-out, the Drive for desktop download link provides the prior version.
Note: To avoid compatibility issues and service interruptions with Drive for desktop, stay on a version that Google released within the last 12 months. For more details, go to Keep Drive for desktop up to date.
October 14th, 2021 – Full Apple silicon (M1) Mac support
Windows and macOS: Version 52. 0
Implemented full support for Apple silicon (M1) Mac computers.
Improved accessibility of folders and files created offline.
Added support for some cameras to back up to Drive for desktop.
Added ability to manage and purchase additional cloud storage from within Drive for desktop.
Improved sync performance when connecting to a network after working offline.
Improved progress messaging when uploading files to Drive for desktop from a USB device.
Added ability to call SIP phones via Meet plug-in.
August 26th, 2021 – Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 51. 0
Improved unsupported file type messaging when transitioning from Backup and Sync.
Improved error handling when transitioning from Backup and Sync.
Added ability for a user to ignore USB devices in Preferences.
Improved stability of Mac when starting Drive for desktop.
Updated Photos language in Advanced Settings.
Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.
August 11, 2021 – Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 50. 0
Improved text for various error messages.
Improved error list interface.
When submitting user feedback, added feedback submission status.
Added validation of proper mount point configuration.
July 12, 2021 – Drive for desktop support for Backup and Sync features
Windows and macOS: Version 49. 0
We added the following functionality to Drive for desktop:
Ability to sync local folders (like Documents or Desktop) to Google Drive, backup to Google Photos, or both. *
Capability to sync files from external drives (for example, USB) to Google Drive, backup to Google Photos, or both. *
Added a guided flow to transition settings from Backup and Sync to Drive for desktop. *
Ability to sign in with up to four Google accounts at once.
Added notification explaining that Live Photos only get synced as a static photo.
*Note: These new features in Drive for desktop will not be available to users in organizations where Backup and Sync is disabled.
Learn more about the changes in this blog post.
May 20, 2021 – Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 48. 0
Improved integration with Spotlight search on macOS to increase relevancy of results.
Improved support for Apple silicon (M1) devices (beta).
April 5, 2021 – Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 47. 0
Improved clarity on error messages and notifications.
Improved loading time for Google Docs files opened from Drive for desktop.
February 22, 2021 – Apple silicon (M1) beta
Windows and macOS: Version 46. 0
Google Drive for desktop version 46. 0 supports Apple silicon (M1) devices in an open beta capacity.
January 29, 2021 – Google Drive for desktop
Windows and macOS: Version 45. 0. 12. 0
Drive File Stream is now Google Drive for desktop. The branding in the product has also been updated to Google Workspace, the new name for G Suite.
The mount point path remains the same, so you can still find all your files in the same places, but shortcuts to the application have been renamed to Google Drive.
On macOS, the application name has been changed to Google Drive. No application name changes on Windows.
Note: Some macOS users report when upgrading from version 44 to 45 of Drive for desktop a “Keychain Not Found” error stating “A keychain cannot be found to store
Update: Some macOS 10. 11 users reported compatibility issues when upgrading to 45. This issue has been resolved in 45. 13. 0 which was released to users on February 9, 2021.
We are also launching a Drive for desktop Beta. Learn more about the Beta and how to sign up in this form. And learn more about Upcoming changes to Google Drive sync clients.
November 20, 2020 – Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 44. 0
Optimized uploads to reduce CPU use.
October 15, 2020 – Additional Google Docs support
Windows and macOS: Version 43. 0
On Windows, arbitrary empty folders can now be configured through the registry to use as a Drive File Stream mount point. See “DefaultMountPoint” in Configure Drive File Stream.
“Open with Google Drive” in the right click context menu now opens in Google Docs instead of Google Drive Preview for Microsoft Office files (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsm, xlsx).
Jamboard files are now supported in Drive File Stream. Double-clicking a file opens it up in Jamboard.
Refreshed Google Docs file icons
Drive File Stream version 43 and above supports macOS 11 Big Sur. Drive File Stream does not yet support Apple M1 devices.
September 3, 2020 – Support for subfolder sharing in Drive
Windows and macOS: Version 42. 0
Drive File Stream now supports folder sharing in shared drives. Learn more.
Drive File Stream users can now cancel file uploads.
Drive File Stream now supports opening files from that aren’t in My Drive or shared drives (such as files “Shared with me”). You can do this by going to click on an item and select Open with. If this option is supported by your computer, you can select Apps on your computer to open your file in Drive File Stream. You may also be prompted to create a shortcut to this new file.
Shortcuts can now be created from the context menu of the file or folder.
Drive File Stream now supports showing previous versions of a file through the context menu.
Subfolder sharing improvements.
July 23, 2020 – Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 41. 0
June 16, 2020 – Easily create Google Docs
Windows and macOS: Version 40. 0
Drive File Stream now supports creating Google Docs from the Windows context menu
Fixed a performance issue related to Spotlight scans upon remount in macOS
May 18, 2020 — Meet plugin
Windows and macOS: Version 39. 0
Drive File Stream for Windows includes a Microsoft Office plugin that lets users schedule Google Meet video meetings directly in MicrosoftOutlook Calendar.
April 22, 2020 — Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 38. 0
Drive File Stream will not use excessive bandwidth when many large files are marked “Available offline”.
March 6, 2020 — Support for subfolder sharing alpha in Drive
Windows and macOS: Version 37. 0
Subfolder sharing alpha program is now closed. Please upgrade to version 42 to continue using subfolder sharing.
Drive File Stream now supports folder sharing in shared drives if you’re a member of the folder sharing alpha program.
Optimized experience for uploading many small files.
Drive File Stream users can now limit the download and upload rate in Settings.
January 16, 2020 — Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 36. 0
Drive File Stream now supports Mac OS X Dark Mode.
Better handling when a user signs out of Drive File Stream with pending uploads.
Fixed a Windows issue preventing Drive File Stream from launching after restarting the computer.
Fixed an issue where Drive File Stream wouldn’t restart after switching accounts.
Properly handling certificate override for all Windows versions, including Windows 10.
November 18, 2019 — Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 35. 0
Additional bug fixes and performance improvements. (No major updates. )
October 9, 2019 — Support for Drive shortcuts
Windows and macOS: Version 34. 0
Drive File Stream now displays shortcuts in Drive if you’re a member of the shortcuts beta program.
Drive File Stream now supports improved automatic recovery if local databases become corrupted on the file system.
August 14, 2019 — Notifications tab
Windows and macOS: Version 33. 0
Drive File Stream notifications now contain more helpful information, and in many cases allow users to take action right from the notification. These messages appear in a new “Notifications” tab in the Drive File Stream menu.
If a user changes the default mount point in the preferences dialog, they can now click Reset to restore the original value.
Fixed several small bugs affecting the new Drive File Stream user interface.
Fixed an issue where the Outlook plugin was accidentally disabled.
Fixed an issue where some user interface elements were not verbalized to screen readers.
Fixed an issue where Drive File Stream onboarding messages were not shown to some users.
The Drive File Stream icon no longer disappears when switching accounts.
Fixed an issue that led users to repeatedly see a “Can’t complete action” dialog when editing PowerPoint files.
July 1, 2019 — Bug fix release
Windows and macOS: Version 32. 0
Drive File Stream now warns users when they attempt to disconnect their account while they still have files that haven’t yet been uploaded to Google Drive. Disconnecting your account deletes the account directory on your machine, including the files that haven’t uploaded yet.
Fixed an issue where multiple Drive File Stream volumes were seen in Finder on macOS.
Fixed an issue where files in some shared drives were slow to receive updates.
Fixed an issue where some file names written in Korean caused folders to appear empty.
Fixed an issue that prevented some users from logging in on macOS.
Users can now turn on verbose logging in Drive File Stream to help troubleshoot issues with support. To enable or disable logging, hold Shift and click the gear menu.
May 15, 2019 — Material redesign
Windows & macOS: Version 31. 0
Drive File Stream has a new look, following Google’s latest Material style. This redesign is intended to make it easier for users to see the latest changes to their files and configure Drive File Stream preferences.
Beginning on May 31st, Team Drives are now shared drives. This name change will change the path to items in shared drives, and desktop shortcuts should be updated to reflect these new paths. Learn more in our blog post.
Hidden shared drives no longer appear in Drive File Stream.
Drive File Stream now warns users explicitly when they sign out before all changes have synced to Drive.
On Windows, Drive File Stream now includes desktop shortcuts to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides by default, on installation. Administrators can turn shortcuts off by adding the –gsuite_shortcuts=false parameter to the Drive File Stream installer.
On macOS, Drive File Stream now also installs shortcuts for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to the Applications folder.
Improved thumbnail performance for images, movies, and PDF files. Also disabled thumbnails for other file formats, where users gave us feedback that they are less useful and more likely to trigger unwanted network traffic.
Fixed an issue where updating to macOS 10. 14. 5 caused Drive File Stream to fail to start. With this release some macOS users will be prompted to re-approve Drive File Stream’s kernel extension in System Preferences.
March 27, 2019 — Easily open non-Google files from the Drive web app
Windows & macOS: Version 30. 1
Drive File Stream now includes a Microsoft Outlook plug-in. This allows users to attach Drive files to emails, save attachments to Drive, and check permissions when sending links. Learn more
Drive File Stream now supports installation on Windows Server 2012+, with support for desktop virtualization use cases.
Drive File Stream now uses cached content more efficiently, resulting in faster downloads that use less network bandwidth.
You can now control the amount of local space used by Drive File Stream’s cache by setting the MinFreeDiskSpaceKBytes configuration parameter. Learn more
Users will now see an error if they make more content available offline than can fit on the local hard disk.
Fixed an issue where some shared drives did not update to reflect changes in Google Drive.
Fixed an issue that prevented some users from renaming shared drives.
Fixed an issue that prevented some users from starting Drive File Stream.
January 28, 2019 — Easily open non-Google files from the Drive web app
Windows & macOS: Version 29. 1
October 17, 2018 — Real-time Presence
Windows & macOS: Version 28. 1
Drive File Stream now includes real-time presence in Microsoft Office, which lets users see who’s editing Office files from Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Learn about real-time presence in the announcement blog post and the Help Center.
Fixed an issue that prevented users from searching Drive File Stream with Spotlight.
Added support for macOS Mojave (10. 14).
September 19, 2018 — Preferences dialog
Windows & macOS: Version 27. 1
July 24, 2018 — Smarter cache support and proxy improvements
Windows & macOS: Version 26. 1
Drive File Stream is now smarter in how it handles offline files. Before this release, Drive File Stream cached offline files, using up to 10GB of storage space. Drive File Stream now guarantees that it won’t use more than 20% of the free local disk space when caching files. Note: This feature is rolling out slowly, and might not be visible to all users for several weeks after release.
Drive File Stream has moved to a new versioning scheme. Starting with version 26. 1, each regular release of Drive File Stream will increment the major version number, similar to Chrome.
Users can now search Drive File Stream with Spotlight.
Fixed an issue where some large PowerPoint or Excel files failed to open consistently.
Users can now save Adobe After Effects files to Drive File Stream.
Fixed an issue on macOS where Drive File Stream did not respect the bypass list of hosts and domains supplied in System Preferences.
Fixed an issue on macOS where Office documents saved from Drive File Stream appeared as ZIP archives in the Drive web application.
Fixed an issue where users weren’t able to switch accounts if their current account was not allowed to use Drive File Stream.
Proxy settings deployed via Web Proxy Auto Discovery are now properly applied.
May 7, 2018 — Right-click to share
Windows: 25. 252. 280. 1656 | macOS: 25. 1658
You can now right-click a file in Drive File Stream to share with Google Drive. (This feature is rolling out slowly to all users. )
Fixed an issue where proxy settings deployed via Web Proxy Auto Discovery on macOS were not being reflected in Drive File Stream.
Fixed an issue where proxy settings changed without using the macOS default command.
March 21, 2018 — Bug fix release
Windows: 25. 196. 222. 1747 | macOS: 25. 225. 242
Windows
Fixed system slowdowns when copying fonts or viewing font folders with large icons.
Fixed slowdowns in Windows Explorer when working with Microsoft Office files.
Added a –force_stop option to the uninstaller, to quit Drive File Stream if it’s running. To learn more, see Uninstall Drive File Stream.
macOS
Fixed an issue where Microsoft Word files were incorrectly recognized as zip files when uploaded from macOS.
Configuration settings are no longer ignored on macOS 10. 11 (El Capitan).
Fixed a problem with extracting files from a zip file.
All platforms
Fixed an issue with system slowdowns when using Drive File Stream with ESET-based Virus Checkers.
Users can now move files between 2 shared drives.
February 22, 2018 — Customize cache location, set bandwidth, and pause syncing
Windows: 25. 157. 185. 3 | macOS: 25. 1505
January 30, 2018 — Customize mount location and proxy settings
Windows: 25. 165. 2150 | macOS: 25. 172. 2329
You can now customize Drive File Stream using the registry on Windows or the defaults command on macOS. These configurations can be set at the user or host level, and persist when Drive File Stream restarts. With this release, you can customize the default letter drive on Windows, the mount point on macOS, and proxy settings. For details, see Configure Drive File Stream.
Fixed an issue where some users with custom SSO configurations were not able to sign in.
December 10, 2017 — Stability release
Windows: 25. 102. 133. 409 | macOS: 25. 222
Drive File Stream now supports systems with Internet Explorer 8 installed.
The user interface has migrated to use Chromium Embedded Framework, for increased reliability.
The Drive File Stream menu now indicates when Drive File Stream is offline.
Fixed an issue where some users were experiencing problems saving files in Acrobat Reader format.
November 15, 2017 — Windows bug fix release
Windows: 25. 1. 99. 2312
Fixed an issue where some users were getting signed out periodically.
Fixed an issue where some users experienced problems saving files using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
November 2, 2017 — Bug fix release
Windows: 25. 92. 1924 | macOS: 25. 95. 1717
Fixed an issue where machines running Windows 10 Fall Creators Update or the latest version of Microsoft Office had trouble saving files.
September 26, 2017 — Initial release
Windows: 25. 53. 29 | macOS: 25. 30
Stream terabytes of files from the cloud, thereby using hardly any disk space.
Access shared drives and My Drive from Drive File Stream.
Mark files, folders, and shared drives for offline access.
Mounts as a letter drive on Windows and a Volume on macOS, just like a network drive.
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Frequently Asked Questions about google drive file stream proxy
What is Google Drive proxy?
Google Drive Proxy is a Windows service that provides a simpler interface to the Google Drive API for other applications. It transparently handles authentication, synchronization and managing a cache of downloaded files.
What happened to Googlestream?
Drive File Stream is now Google Drive for desktop. The branding in the product has also been updated to Google Workspace, the new name for G Suite. The mount point path remains the same, so you can still find all your files in the same places, but shortcuts to the application have been renamed to Google Drive.
How do I allow Google Drive through my firewall?
Press the “Windows” + “S” Keys simultaneously and type in “Firewall” Typing in “Firewall” and selecting the First option from the list. Click on the first option and then click on the “Allow an app or feature through Firewall” option. Clicking on the “Allow an App or feature” through firewall option.Apr 18, 2020
