Hello, I am running Node-RED on a raspberry pi 4. For future projects I would like a reliable way to read files from other raspberry pi's on the same network, as well as, windows 10 computers. To give a little context, I have a different node-RED program running on a Windows 10 PC that uses the file in node to read the contents of a file on another Windows 10 PC on our network. In the file in path I use "\\hostname\C$\path-to-file" to access the contents of the file. This works as expected. I'm not able to use this method for Windows-Pi, Pi-Windows, or Pi-Pi. It only works Windows-Windows. Is there another format that will allow me to do this? Or is there a limitation using the file in node? I have also tried using node-red-contrib-scp to read Pi-Pi, and Pi-Windows with no luck. I know about how to setup share folders both on the Windows side and the Pi side but this is not an acceptable solution in my situation. Is there a node package or method that will allow me to achieve this task?

So to your knowledge there is no other way to access the share in Node-RED?

[image] jgreenmt: Is there another convenient way to access the smb share? I would like to stay away from mounting and using a local address because it could be possible that I would need to mount up to 56 different shares at a time and that sounds messy. At this point, Id probably gather these 56 locations into a DFS and then mount 1 point Alternatively, make a script that mounts all of these these at startup. Once mounted, it is simple file read / file write nodes!

My last attempt to avoid mounting, is there any way to use an smb uri or something to access the location? Is there any point in posting the errors I get when using the node packages I've mentioned? Otherwise, I'm not familiar with DFS. Could you give me some direction? Also when I first accessed the smb share using the file manager on the Pi, it created a shortcut on the desktop that allows me to access that share again quickly. I usually mount through the command line but I just wanted to verify that this is not an alternative way to mount?

try cifs://sharename instead of smb:// would be my only other thought It really is not that messy to mount all the shares at once in Linux though - you would have them mount at startup and have each mount under a single mountpoint (say) /mnt/Windows/1, /mnt/Windows/2 etc etc Craig

Where would you try that? In a file in node? I see there is a node-red-contrib-cifs I will try that as well. Just to clarify the smb file path works in the file manager on the Pi. I just haven't found a way to replicate it in Node-RED. One other thing I thought of is using a function node or an exec node, but I'm not sure that will be any less messy. And I have no idea where to start.

Well you could use an exec node and run a bash script and do a dynamic mount and pass it the parameter for the CIFS mount but really not sure that is going to do much for you Craig

Yeah that doesn't seem any better. I was thinking more like running something like an smbclient command and return the output of the directory/file. But I've already talked myself out of that idea. When you first mentioned using cifs:// were you meaning in a file in node?

nope just in the other nodes you were trying Craig

What about this ?? [image] GitHub - eflexsystems/node-samba-client: Node.js wrapper for smbclient Node.js wrapper for smbclient. Contribute to eflexsystems/node-samba-client development by creating an account on GitHub. [image] How to use an npm module within a function node? General Also the documentation is worth checking before asking: https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/writing-functions#loading-additional-modules Craig

This looks very promising. So to make sure I have the general idea right. Use npm in command line to install the Node.js wrapper for smbclient In Node-RED download node-red-contrib-npm From there I configure the npm node to call the functions from the wrapper? These are the settings I'm thinking are correct: NPM Module: node-samba-client Module Style: Not sure if Module Function or Custom If Module Function, for the function parameter would I use await client.getFile('someRemotePath/file', 'destinationFolder/name'); Am I on the right track?

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What about this ??

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