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

Carlos E.R., 2025-04-22 07:25:
 

On 2025-04-22 03:44, Arno Welzel wrote:

[...]

"Due to Android limitations, this app requires root (as on all Unixoid
operating systems, it is not possible to open a port <1024 otherwise,> and
the default SMB port is 445 and Windows doesn't work with anything
else). Without root, you either need some sort of SMB client which
allows configuring the port used (SimbaDroid uses port 4450 behind the
scenes), or some kind of port mapping software to allow Windows to
transparently connect to port 4450."

 
Is not iOS an unixoid system inside? It is based on Darwin, which is an
open-source Unix-like operating system developed by Apple. It should
have the same limitation binding to ports below 1024 for user apps. That
it doesn't is interesting.

 
Correct - iOS also does not allow using ports below 1024 for *servers*
implemented in user installable apps without privileged access.