# Issues Reading .parquet and .orc Files from Shared Folders on Intranet with Knime

**URL:** <https://forum.knime.com/t/issues-reading-parquet-and-orc-files-from-shared-folders-on-intranet-with-knime/87870>\
**Category:** KNIME Analytics Platform\
**Tags:** bug, big-data\
**Created:** [May 3, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issues-reading-parquet-and-orc-files-from-shared-folders-on-intranet-with-knime/87870 "2025-05-03T00:18:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![JonathanF14](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/jonathanf14/32/44533_2.png) [@JonathanF14](https://forum.knime.com/u/JonathanF14)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issues-reading-parquet-and-orc-files-from-shared-folders-on-intranet-with-knime/87870/1 "2025-05-03T00:18:46Z")

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Hello! 👋🏽

I hope you are all well.

I have a technical situation and I hope to find help here…

In the company I work for, we are using the free version of Knime, and we work with a local network (intranet). When we want to read .parquet or .orc files (which, by the way, I create in Knime), it doesn’t let me read the files from the intranet location (shared folders). However, if I read these files from my hard drive, I can read them perfectly.

Any ideas? I’ll be waiting…

P.S. I’m not from the IT department, so please excuse me if I use the terms incorrectly. 😃

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**Author:** ![rfeigel](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@rfeigel](https://forum.knime.com/u/rfeigel)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issues-reading-parquet-and-orc-files-from-shared-folders-on-intranet-with-knime/87870/2 "2025-05-03T01:02:45Z")

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What error message(s) are you getting?

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**Author:** ![mlauber71](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/mlauber71/32/73590_2.png) [@mlauber71](https://forum.knime.com/u/mlauber71)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issues-reading-parquet-and-orc-files-from-shared-folders-on-intranet-with-knime/87870/3 "2025-05-03T14:30:28Z")

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@JonathanF14 you might have to connect to your (remote) file system or sharepoint (small blue squares). Then you can either load the the files directly or you can move (transfer) them to a local temporary folder and then load them.

You can read about KNIME’s concept with files here:

[https://docs.knime.com/latest/analytics\_platform\_file\_handling\_guide/index.html#introduction](https://docs.knime.com/latest/analytics_platform_file_handling_guide/index.html#introduction)

Edit: here is an example:

> **[Transfer Files – mlauber71](https://hub.knime.com/mlauber71/spaces/Examples/Transfer%20Files~xJ_mjuYPj88r7kWf/current-state)**
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> Demonstrates a simple use of File System Connectors and Transfer

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**Author:** ![JonathanF14](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/jonathanf14/32/44533_2.png) [@JonathanF14](https://forum.knime.com/u/JonathanF14)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issues-reading-parquet-and-orc-files-from-shared-folders-on-intranet-with-knime/87870/4 "2025-05-15T19:47:25Z")

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Thanks for replying my post @rfeigel. Here’s the error:  
Execute failed: nio-wrapper://52d2c640-971e-4217-baca-c374a47678da/fileserver/folder/xxxxxxx.parquet

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**Author:** ![rfeigel](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@rfeigel](https://forum.knime.com/u/rfeigel)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issues-reading-parquet-and-orc-files-from-shared-folders-on-intranet-with-knime/87870/5 "2025-05-16T03:12:43Z")

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This is not my area of expertise so I can’t offer any certain help. How are you trying to connect to the remote files? Do you have a proxy which may be blocking access? Have you tried the SSH Connector node?

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ab3ccf34482a0329361734a18199390177204f15.png) [@system](https://forum.knime.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issues-reading-parquet-and-orc-files-from-shared-folders-on-intranet-with-knime/87870/6 "2025-08-14T03:13:13Z")

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