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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to
 connect to each other & Windows?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:13:47 +0200
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Alan, 2025-04-24 19:04:

> On 2025-04-24 10:00, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Marion, 2025-04-22 04:06:
>>
>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:44:54 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
>> [...]
>>>> Many apps - and all have same issue: you can not open a port below 1024
>>>> for servers without root access. And not every SMB client is able to use
>>>> custom ports above 1024.
>>>
>>> Thanks for being another voice where there are three "facts" at this point.
>>> 1. It turns out that iOS apps, nonjailbroken, can bind to privileged ports
>>
>> No. iOS has the same limitation. User installable apps can not use ports
>> below 1024.
> 
> I'm sorry, but that has been PROVEN to be false.
> 
> I have an iPhone 16 by my right hand and I can start an app called "LAN 
> drive" and it will serve files using SMB on port 445.

You refer to this?

<https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lan-drive-samba-server-client/id1317727404?platform=iphone>

>>> 2. Yet, we all always kind of sort of knew Android apps, nonrooted, cannot
>>> 3. Even so, SMB server apps exist on both iOS & Android platforms
>>
>> Yes, but only using NON STANDARD PORTS!
> Not true on iOS.

I stand corrected and wonder why iOS allows this, since it is also a
"unixoid" system like Android.


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Arno Welzel
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