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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to
 connect to each other & Windows?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:56:03 -0700
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On 2025-04-16 16:19, Marion wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:00:00 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote :
> 
> 
>>> 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.
>>
>> But it can't be. lol.
> 
> I'm always logically sensible and reasonable, and if I make a mistake, I
> own up to it - but more to the point - I look for proven facts before I
> make my assessments of those facts.
> 
> That's the fundamental difference between a normal person & an Apple troll.
> Apple trolls are what they are because they guess at everything.
> 
> They're herd animals to the core.
> It's a protective mechanism because they can't resolve fact from fiction.
> 
> So they assume the herd, en masse, does what they themselves, can't do.
> 
> First off, this wouldn't be the first time Apple trolls "claimed" something
> that they "saw" thinking it proved what they didn't bother to understand.
> 
> Witness, for example, the infamous Snit (with Jolly Roger & nospam's +1)
>   *2-1/2 minute Snit video purportedly detailing iOS showing Wi-Fi decibels*
>   <https://youtu.be/7QaABa6DFIo> iKooks can't even see the fatal flaw!
>   From: Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> === Michael Glasser


I'd rather witness your attempt to deflect from the fact that multiple 
people have shown that that which you claim cannot work...

....works.

> 
>   REFERENCE: Oct 10, 2017, 8:50:05 AM
>   *It's a fact iOS devices can't even graph Wi-Fi signal strength over time*
>   <https://groups.google.com/g/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/c/PZuec56EWB0>
>   <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/PZuec56EWB0>
> 
> That video, which JR & nospam high-fived, proves none of the Apple trolls
> ever learned the the difference between a MegabitPerSecond & a Decibel.
> 
> It's almost certainly a similar logical fallacy at work here.
> a. We know the SMB servers work
> b. But we also are aware they can't use ports below 1024 (AFAICT)
> c. So redirection is most likely what's really going on under the covers
> 
> All the triumphant insults by the Apple trolls aside, the technical
> question to resolve is what port do the iOS/Android SMB servers use?

Other than avoiding admitting you're wrong, why would anyone care?