Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Tutorial: How to copy ANY files, both directions between Windows and iOS/iPadOS using built-in functionality Date: 15 Apr 2025 15:31:53 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 2F8UMyNwsghGR++0U4w5kQs8dJufFekSx5BEtQfjgu2pgm3bKx X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:/fBWHG3KumWpRLm7G38c+Mo9fpY= sha256:vcMBfQ0/r6ybp+zNrlztBti5SQD171E2Ar89PqWd0As= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2625 Graham J wrote: > Hank Rogers wrote: > [snip] > >> > > The drive is a samsung 500 gb hard disk attached to a netgear router?s > > USB port. It works perfectly with several windows machines on my network > > but not with iPhones or iPads. > > I've seen very variable performance when connecting a disk to a router's > USB port - any router, not necessarily Netgear. Sometimes they don't > work at all, other times they might be read-only. I suspect the > router's implementation of the necessary protocols is inadequate. > > Please can you try a real NAS connected to your network. In the meantime he responded that he (Hank) can not, because he doesn't have a real NAS, but IMO he doesn't have to try, because if it works with his Windows system, but not with his router-connected disk, the problem is in the router and is - as Paul mentioned - probably a SMB version issue. Perhaps the iOS Files app or iOS itself can - temporarily - be persuaded to use SMB 1.0 protocol? Another test: Make sure that SMB 1.0 is *not* enabled on his Windows system [1] and let his Windows system try to access the router-connected disk as a Network Share. If that also fails, it's very likely that the router-connected disk is SMB1-only. Perhaps, as a final test, enabling/ticking 'SMB 1.0/CIFS Client' (only Client, *not* Server) can prove it works with SMB 1.0. [1] Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off -> SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support -> make sure all four boxes are unticked.