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

Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:

On Apr 18, 2025 at 12:25:07?AM EDT, "Marion" <marion@facts.com> wrote:
 

If someone can explain why "net use Z:" mounts Android as a Windows drive
letter when I use a WebDav server on Android, but the same command doesn't
mount Android as a drive letter when I use SMB, I'd love to know why.

 
Because there is no SMB (port 445) server running on Android. Android does not
allow anyone to use port 445 for servers.  iOS does. WebDav is using port
8080.  That's why it works on Android.

['Arlen' messed up his References:, which caused his post to get
filtered. Probably for the best, considering his insults and phoney
compliments, but al.howardknight.net came to the 'rescue'.]

  I have little experience with 'net use', but can't 'Arlen' just use
the '/tcpport:NNNN' option and set it to the - 1024 or higher - port
number of the Android SMB server?

  That way, the Android SMB server would not be a Network *Share* that
Windows could see/use, but it would be a Network *Drive* for Windows.