I need Node-RED (running in UMH) to access XML files on a network share. The share is mounted on the Rocky Linux VM hosting UMH, but Node-RED cannot access it. Should I add a Persistent Volume (PV) and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) to the UMH Helm chart for this, or is there a better way to configure access?

theoretically you would get to your result using your approach, but I would recommend using directly the protocol of the network drive (samba? ftp?) within nodered. this makes it less complex and prone to security issues

Ah yes, this should be an option. It's meant for file-watching, and I'm not sure if that would be working over FTP. I'm going to also try SMB; https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-smb2.5

@krgrsebastian @Mateusz maybe you also had some thoughts on this already?

I have not used samba direct in nodered. for the printer i use i am using samba but i created a custom docker for it. If the share is mounted on a linux host you should be able to access it via SSH. not sure if there is any nodered nodes for that.

i have use smb in nodered, works perfectly fine

@Luke van Enkhuizen did the node-red-contrib-smb2.5 work for you?

I have planned to work on this later today. Will report back ASAP 🙂