R.Wieser wrote:
Frank,
1. 'Map network drive' and 'net use' can not handle FTP syntax, period.
If someone thinks differently, then please show *real* *working*
examples with *real* FTP servers and port numbers, i.e. something like:
I'm surprised that you even considered testing it. FTP is not, and has
never been, a way to access a drive.
I can assure you that I know full well what FTP can and cannot do
(I've - professionally - been doing networking since the very early 70s,
before any kind of 'Internet'), but read on.
In the same way "net" (use) has never been something to support internet
protocols.
Well, as 'Arlen' posted, 'net use' *does* work with a WebDAV server
and - in this context - WebDAV does offer similar functionality as FTP.
So for WebDAV, 'net use' *is* "a way to access a drive" and hence
*is* "something to support internet protocols".
The whole point is that 'net use' *does* offer WebDAV compatibility/
functionality, but for some reason does *not* offer FTP compatibility/
functionality. That might make sense to Microsoft, but it doesn't make
any sense to normal people, especially since FTP is older than WebDAV.
Also, FTP is a *file transfer* (as in: the whole thing) protocol, not ment
to be used to do random reads and writes to a file. DIR ? Yes. COPY ?
yes. DEL ? yes. ATTRIB ? Nope, only Linux-style permissions are
supported. Anything else ? Not so much. As such it cannot even be used
to do Arlens "every window command" with it.
Yes, that's the whole point!
That's why he - and everybody else - *wants* a SMB solution, but -
unless rooted - Android can not use ports below 1024 and Windows is too
stupid to use another port (than the default 445), which most other SMB
clients/servers *can*.
So he/everybody else *wants* a SMB solution, but *until* that actually
*works* - for a SMB server on a non-rooted Android device -, he's
looking at less-ideal alternatives.
And that is where his story ends.
Unless he's willing to check out stuff like this he
https://www.ferrobackup.com/map-ftp-as-disk.html
... Which he isn't (which is a good, but limiting choice).
I can't blame you for not following all he posts, but he *did* and
*does* look into this (FTPUSE) [1], but for some reason, he can not get
it to work on Windows *10*. (He used it before on some other Windows
version - probably Windows XP - and I used (no longer need it) it on
Windows 8.1.)
He has asked for others to test it on Windows 10, but AFAICT nobody
has done so. I wonder why!? :-)
If you have Windows 10 and want to help him, please feel free.
Than again, as long as you use third-party software (or write it yourself!)
you can get (most) everything to work - even (full, raw) disk access over
morse. :-)
Nah! Morse code is SO old-fashioned. These days we use Avian Carriers [2]!
[1] AFAIR, he was actually the first to mention FTPUSE in these groups.
From: Jonas Schneider
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,comp.mobile.and roid
Subject: What do you use to copy text files from Windows XP to Android over WiFi?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 05:41:45 +0000 (UTC)
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[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt