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

On Apr 17, 2025 at 1:57:20 PM EDT, "Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid>
wrote:

Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:
[...]
 
[About "LAN Drive Samba server" on iOS:]
 

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.  I
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.
 
I then transferred a random PDF file from Windows to the iPad. Worked fine.
LAN Drive Samba Server also gives you access to DCIM on the iPad. Yes, you can
copy photos from the iPad to Windows.  Note that the iPad appears as a mapped
drive on Windows. I used drive letter X.
 
I then moved a file in the Files app on the iPad into the LANDrive folder.
On Windows 11, I was able to see and copy this file over to Windows.  Just
like any network drive.
 
The DCIM access appears to be read only. At least, in 30 minutes of testing
this app, I don't see a way to get write access. But you DO have access to it.
 
So, the Apple-hating trolls can lose more sleep. Yet ANOTHER thing that they
were absolutely SURE could not be done (because "iOS is a toy") CAN BE DONE.
 Direct transfers between iOS and Android is possible. You can access the DCIM
folder. You CAN map an iPad/iPhone as a drive letter on Windows, so you can
move files back and forth FROM Windows instead of FROM iOS.  Certainly such
apps are available for Android as well.

 
  No, such apps (SMB servers which can use port 445) are *not* available
on Android!
 
  That's why 'Arlen' can't handle your facts, because in this case, iOS
can do something which (non-rooted) Android can not.
 
  Android servers (of any type) can not use ports below 1024.
 

As I said yesterday, all that is needed is an SMB Server.

 
  Which also closes another open question (control a Windows<->iOS copy
*from* Windows).
 
  What was the thing with birds and a stone again!? :-)

Thank you SO much for the verification.  Arlen had dropped your name somewhere
in this tangled mess of threads as "proof" that iOS could not do this.  All
the while claiming that I was making all of this up.  He claimed "Imaginary
Functionality".