# FTP windows issues

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ftp-windows-issues/69745>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [28 October 2022 18:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ftp-windows-issues/69745 "2022-10-28T18:02:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [28 October 2022 19:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ftp-windows-issues/69745/5 "2022-10-28T19:21:29Z")

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Take a look at this link (I created for my IoT students) to transfer files to/from a remote FTPserver.  
It makes use of a Python script called via an EXEC node in Node-RED.

> [@Using FTP(S) to transfer files to/from a remote FTP server](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/using-ftp-s-to-transfer-files-to-from-a-remote-ftp-server/62735):
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> Some of my IoT students have encountered problems trying to get some of the FTP (Node-RED) contrib nodes working. This may be due to the restrictions on the school network and/or the school's ISP. As an exercise I tried writing a couple of Python scripts to use the FTP\_TLS library to send and receive files between a Raspberry Pi and a remote FTP server. As shown below, the scripts are called from a Node-RED flow using an Exec node. [{"id":"678f819f147e416a"…

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