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

Alan, 2025-04-24 19:04:
 

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

Marion, 2025-04-22 04:06:
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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

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

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I'm sorry, but that has been PROVEN to be false.
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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.

 You refer to this?
 <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lan-drive-samba-server-client/id1317727404?platform=iphone>

 

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

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Yes, but only using NON STANDARD PORTS!

Not true on iOS.

 I stand corrected and wonder why iOS allows this, since it is also a
"unixoid" system like Android.