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Frank Slootweg, 2025-04-24 19:35:

[...]
>   For those 3 wants, a SMB server on the iOS/Android device is the best
> solution, because (AFAIK) iOS has no MTP support and PTP support is less
> complete (can see less of the file system) than on Android.

With iOS this is indeed different as I learned.

But Android definitely does NOT allow to port 445 for apps as *server*
without root access and Windows is not able to connect to SMB shares on
non standard ports.


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