Re: Tutorial: How to copy ANY files, both directions between Windows and iOS/iPadOS using built-in functionality

On Mon, 4/14/2025 12:23 PM, Graham J wrote:

Hank Rogers wrote:
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The drive is a samsung 500 gb hard disk attached to a netgear  router’s
USB port.  It works perfectly with several windows machines on my network
but not with iPhones or iPads.

 
I've seen very variable performance when connecting a disk to a router's USB port - any router, not necessarily Netgear.  Sometimes they don't work at all, other times they might be read-only.  I suspect the router's implementation of the necessary protocols is inadequate.
 
Please can you try a real NAS connected to your network.

It's well known, that the vast majority of NAS devices owned
by USENETters are SMBV1. There is a continuous stream of questions
about cranky NAS situations.

When we answer questions, we don't even bother asking any more.
In fact, I don't really have any evidence that NAS boxes use
anything OTHER than SMBV1 :-) W10/W11 have a logging feature,
which records what SMB standard was used for a connection, but
the scheme is not any more proactive than that. Only a successful
connection is logged and then you can examine what it says.

Wireshark can help you a tiny bit, with SMB interactions.
It has a dissector for SMB. But when I tried to use it,
on a connection that wasn't going to happen, the dissector
could not descend deeper than an error word with bit fields.
I was told, by looking up the bitfield myself, that my error
condition was "need more information", which is very very
specific about why my connection isn't happening. And
I "need a Sparkle Pony", but "Something Happened".

The first one here, is from my notes file, a connection between
two modern versions of windows. SMBV3 in use.

PS> Get-SmbConnection

ServerName        ShareName       UserName            Credential              Dialect         NumOpens
---------         --------        --------            ----------              -------         --------
CRUISE            IPC$            WALLACE\ringo       MSA\a@a.a               3.1.1           0

*******

I just set this one up.

PS> Get-SmbConnection

ServerName        ShareName       UserName            Credential              Dialect         NumOpens
----------        ---------       --------            ----------              -------         --------
WINXP             sharexp (e)     WALLACE\ringo       MicrosoftAccount\a@a.a  1.5             2

The connection to my WinXP VM is Dialect 1.5, so a slight variant of SMBV1 .

   Paul