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

On 2025-04-24 10:00, Arno Welzel wrote:

Marion, 2025-04-22 04:06:
 

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:44:54 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :

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Many apps - and all have same issue: you can not open a port below 1024
for servers without root access. And not every SMB client is able to use
custom ports above 1024.

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Thanks for being another voice where there are three "facts" at this point.
1. It turns out that iOS apps, nonjailbroken, can bind to privileged ports

 No. iOS has the same limitation. User installable apps can not use ports
below 1024.

I'm sorry, but that has been PROVEN to be false.
I have an iPhone 16 by my right hand and I can start an app called "LAN drive" and it will serve files using SMB on port 445.
I've done it.
Others have done it.

 

2. Yet, we all always kind of sort of knew Android apps, nonrooted, cannot
3. Even so, SMB server apps exist on both iOS & Android platforms

 Yes, but only using NON STANDARD PORTS!

Not true on iOS.