Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to connect to each other & Windows?

Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:

On Apr 16, 2025 at 2:35:09 AM EDT, "Chris" <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:

Frank Slootweg and I discussed this years ago and the problem with Android
running an SMB server is the ports are 139 (SMB over NetBIOS) and 445 (SMB
directly over TCP/IP) both of which are below 1024 and hence impossible on
a non-rooted Android. Since 139 is deprecated, let's just talk about 445.
 
It's my understanding non jailbroken iOS has the exact same restrictions.
Windows expects SMB to be on port 445.

 
As per usual your understanding of iOS is lacking. There is no such
restriction.
 
I use "LAN Drive Samba server" and these are the server settings:
https://i.postimg.cc/8CK3h4bT/IMG-6999.jpg
 
Works just fine.

 
That is one of the apps I looked at yesterday.
 
So I installed it today. The free version works fine, but is sort of slow. 

Yeah, it's restricted to get you to buy the full version.

was able to start the server on an iPad and create a user account with
read/write access. The folder it creates is a folder in the Files app.
 
BTW the "localhost" in the picture above is just the default name used for the
iPad/iPhone.  I changed that to "ipad1'. 
 
I then did a standard "Map Network Drive" in Windows 11. I connected to
\ipad1\LANDrive". I entered my name and password (that I setup on the iPad
SMB Server).  All very standard Windows networking stuff. So it clearly IS
using port 445.

But it can't be. lol.

I can guarantee you Arlen will now go quiet for a few days and completely
ignore this topic. He'll start something else.

Because he will *never accept he's wrong* from people he's labelled as
being trolls.