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

On 2025-04-26, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2025-04-25 11:11, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-04-25 17:33, Arno Welzel wrote:

Frank Slootweg, 2025-04-25 17:13:
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Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:

On Apr 24, 2025 at 1:02:33?PM EDT, "Arno Welzel"
<usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

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

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Oh look.  Arlen has Y.A.S.P.  That's so cute.

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    Arno Welzel isn't 'Arlen'. As Chris also mentioned, Arno came (too)
late to the thread and apparently has not been following the thread, so
he was not aware that iOS *can* use servers on ports below 1024.
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    AFAICT from the comments from You Guys (TM), Arno's comment on "user
installable apps" is incorrect, because AFAIK the iOS SMB server used
('LAN Drive Samba server') *is* an user-installable app. Correct?
What about his "apps without privileged access" comment?

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I stand corrected, if iOS allows user installable apps without any
special permission using ports below 1024 as server. I was just not
aware of that and did not expect this, since Android does not allow that
like any Linux based systems. But iOS is not Linux based and of course
it may be that Apple decided to handle that in a different way.

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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.

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Not really.
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It's not like the restriction on "privileged ports" is baked into the
kernel...
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...and even if it were, it could be unbaked.

 Exactly. It's really not the big deal they think it is.