Writing a text file from Node Red to Windows

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I see from a previous post on the Node red forum, “Outputting text to a Windows shared folder” that Node Red running on Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi can’t output text to a Windows Folder as HA blocks that and only a modification to HA will allow that.

I would like to know if that is true or still the case or is there another way to use something like the Write File node to send text data from Node Red to a Windows folder.

I tried various way specifying the file path incl UNC and no luck. Please assist.

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You are better off with installing a FTP service on the Windows machine and then find a FTP client for NodeRed.
I can recommend FileZilla Server for the Windows machine.

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Thank you for the advice. I am familiar with FileZilla on the Windows side, connecting to files on a server.
However I have not yet done the server side.

I am not getting the connection made to my local Node Red server.
I am trying the sftp node in Node-Red-contrib-ftp.
I set the SFTP Server to 192.168.0.30 which is in the same range as Node Red 192.168.0.28:8123.
I set the user name to myname and the password and left the as default values. From Windows FlieZilla side I however don’t get a connection. Hence all on my local PC at the moment.
Any advice please.

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First you need the FileZilla Server and not the Client on the Windows.
Then you might need to set up the NodeRed to use a passive connection.