We have a number of CIFS networks shares that I've been denied permission to mount on my NiFi Linux server. In the past I've accessed similar shares by running NiFi on a Windows server and then pushing the files using Site-to-Site, but I'd rather avoid that if I can. In the past those Windows servers were already available, but I don't want to setup new servers just to perform this duty.
The Hortonworks article I found online did it using two servers also: https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/26089/windows-share-nifi-hdfs-a-practical-guide.htm I looked into adding CIFS support to the *File processors, but the only library I could find was jCIFS, which is licensed as LGPL... Apache Camel works around this licensing limitation by pointing users to the "Camel Extra" project, which is not officially an Apache project, and is not distributed as part of Camel http://camel.apache.org/jcifs.html.
