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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB
 servers to connect to each other & Windows?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:52:46 -0000 (UTC)
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Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
> Carlos E.R., 2025-04-22 07:25:
> 
>> On 2025-04-22 03:44, Arno Welzel wrote:
> [...]
>>> "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.
> 
> Correct - iOS also does not allow using ports below 1024 for *servers*
> implemented in user installable apps without privileged access.

You've come in very late to this thread. I've demonstrated with screenshots
that you can on iOS. Look at my first few posts here. 

Ignore "Marion's" many protestations that it is impossible.