https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/I-am-wiling-to-transfer-my-excel-and-Csv-files-from-Shared/m-p/214303#M176218 <P>If i'm understanding correctly, you simply want a way to transfer from you shared folder to another linux file system on the edge node and NOT to hdfs. There are a few ways to do it.</P><P>1. Use winscp like <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/3418/jsensharma.html" nodeid="3418">@Jay SenSharma</A> mentioned</P><P>2. Create an nfs share on the edge node so you could simply use your regular winodws folder to drag and drop</P><P>3. Create an ftp(s) service on the edge node so you could use ftp to transfer the file</P><P>4. Use a program like filezilla to do the transfer for you.</P><P>And these are just some of the options.</P><P>You may also be interested in how to upload from your workstation to, eventually hdfs.</P><P>1. After uploading to edge node and if you have the hdfs client, simply use hdfs commands as <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/3418/jsensharma.html" nodeid="3418">@Jay SenSharma</A> has mentioned</P><P>2. Use an NFS gateway. This way, the hadoop file system can be displayed as a regular folder in your windows machine.. pretty cool actually. </P><P>3. Use ambari files view to upload files in your shared folder directly to hdfs</P><P>4. Use 3rd party tools to move the files for you. BI tools have hooks that can you webhdfs api to upload the files for you directly to hdfs.</P> Fri, 23 Jun 2017 01:43:52 GMT ed_gleeck 2017-06-23T01:43:52Z