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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to
 connect to each other & Windows?
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On 2025-04-22 03:44, Arno Welzel wrote:
> Marion, 2025-04-19 03:21:
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:35:32 +0000, Tyrone 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.
>>
>> Hi Tyrone,
>>
>> Thanks for helping out on this thread, where you and Crhis were the only
>> people, other than me, who did any work to solve teh question being asked.
>>
>> As a result of our efforts, the rest of the group has learned a ton.
>> Which is exactly how Uenet is supposed to work as a team.
>>
>> So I thank you very much for all your effort & patience in testing SMB.
>>
>> I'm not a network expert by any stretch of the imagination, so I will defer
>> to your greater knowledge level, but just to add value to this
>> conversation, I had long ago compiled a listing of the available free SMB
>> servers on Android with information from Frank Slootweg and others, oh,
>> maybe five years ago.
>>
>> Here is that listing.
>> But I do not know how many of these are still developed.
>>
>> Free Android SMB Servers:
>>
>> SimbaDroid (Open Source)
>> https://github.com/buttercookie42/SimbaDroid
>> SMB Version(s): SMBv1, SMBv2, SMBv3
>> Note: This app does not require root.
> 
> It does, if you want to use the default port - and getting Windows to
> connect to port 4550 is not that simple:
> 
> "Due to Android limitations, this app requires root (as on all Unixoid
> operating systems, it is not possible to open a port < 1024 otherwise,
> and the default SMB port is 445 and Windows doesn't work with anything
> else). Without root, you either need some sort of SMB client which
> allows configuring the port used (SimbaDroid uses port 4450 behind the
> scenes), or some kind of port mapping software to allow Windows to
> transparently connect to port 4450."

Is not 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.



-- 
Cheers, Carlos.