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Subject: Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB
 servers to connect to each other & Windows?
Date: 14 May 2025 11:01:48 GMT
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Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> 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.
> 
>> 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!
> 
> 

This is so easy to disprove. Go to the App Store and get the app “GoFTP
server” and then in its setting get it to use port 500. Connect to it from
your laptop or whatever and transfer a file. I just did it then and it
works fine.