Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to connect to each other & Windows? Date: 24 Apr 2025 17:47:54 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net WX0q5wf6Jn2HR+a8YqIRUwaT4O+pA4cTlPa3b+r90aoHSUHiik Cancel-Lock: sha1:SGEcVQy5YyO8rnhuoXK4pixVXow= sha256:kVEKaLg9pYrD7dqfQhDFNxzhP8uUSwv8UwTBUpG5jRc= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:148079 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:194763 On 2025-04-24, 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. > >> 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! Bullshit: # nc -z rogersiphone 445 Connection to rogersiphone port 445 [tcp/microsoft-ds] succeeded! Say more stupid things. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR