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

badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

Hank Rogers wrote:
 

badgolferman wrote:

Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> wrote:.

 

 
And you have to repeat all this shit every time DHCP issues a
different IP address to your windows computer.
 
 
 

 
 
That seldom happens, but you can always reserve that IP address for
your PC in your home router.
 

 
It's only seldom if you have only 1 or two devices and never reboot
them.
 
It happens fairly often if you have several devices connecting at
different times.
 
Yes, you can switch to using static IPs, but it's also a hassle, and
other disadvantages.
 
I have a network drive which always has the same IP and it is a good
solution, but doesn't work with apple's "files" app. Files sets the
drive as read only. It's been this way for a long time, so I doubt
apple will ever fix it. I found another app which DOES work, but
there's no way to get the native files crapp to write anything to the
drive.

 
Files app sets the network drive as read-only? 

Yes.  Many people have reported this and for several versions of
ios/ipados.

Is this network drive

external to the Apple device... or are you saying Files app sets the
Apple device as read-only and you can't write to your phone?
 

The drive is a samsung 500 gb hard disk attached to a netgear  routers’s
USB port.  It works perfectly with several windows machines on my network
but not with iPhones or ipads