Hi Stefan,

I'm not part of the team, but from other posts on this support forum, it seems that both your questions have YES as answer.

• The component does work in OutSystems 11 cloud to on-premises servers via VPN (there's also user impersonation capabilities as mentioned here).
• And from this post, UNC paths seem to be equally supported.

I've reached out to the team directly to get a more definite answer for you.

Cheers!

Hi Stefan. No, it doesn't work, you can find some discussion on this other component that had a similar feature: https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/42390/outsystems-11/#Post158171

You can try using a component that I have created myself to overcome this problem: https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component-overview/8194/shared-folder

Thank you both for your answers. 

As SMB protocol is no longer supported since OutSystems 11 there is not really a viable option to connect to network shares.  CIFS protocol is using SMB1, current Windows server versions support SMB3+. Older version are not recommended due to security risks.

We see no other option but to use SFTP server to address this.

Hi Stefan, that's a good point and I wasn't aware it had been discontinued.

I could not find any .NET library supporting SMB 3, but it looks like there is one for SMB 2.1: https://www.nuget.org/packages/SMBLibrary/

You might want to check if it works for you. If it does, consider joining the team of Shared Folder forge component, and contributing a new version.

Thanks.