Frank,

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')

My apologies.

Well, as 'Arlen' posted, 'net use' *does* work with a WebDAV
server and - in this context - WebDAV does offer similar functionality
as FTP.

Grumble, grumble ... Only now, due to your WebDav reference, I see that I
mixed two threads up: The "android over USB" and this one. Mea culpa. :-(

Yes, that's the whole point!

Phew, I got at least that one right. :-)

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*.

I thought that that was solved ? I saw him mention a few port echoing
(proxy) programs, with one of them being a standard windows app. Did it
fizzle out for some reason ?

I can't blame you for not following all he posts, but he *did*
and *does* look into this (FTPUSE) [1],

Its not that I think that he doesn't look into stuff, but that he expects
others to name the programs that will solve his problems.

[1] AFAIR, he was actually the first to mention FTPUSE in these groups.

I might be too pessimistic - its ofcourse possible that he found some usable
software on his own - but seeing how he pumps everyone here to come up with
the programs he needs my default is to assume he got it by pumping some poor
sod outside these newsgroups.

He has asked for others to test it on Windows 10, but AFAICT
nobody has done so. I wonder why!? :-)

well... uuhh... Yeah, what can I say. I think he there reaps what he has
sown. whistle

If you have Windows 10 and want to help him, please feel free.

No and no.

And thats another reason why I dislike the guy. He keeps dumping his
requests into the XP newsgroup, even though he should be aware that programs
working on XP likely won't work on W10 (and vise verse).

Nah! Morse code is SO old-fashioned. These days we use Avian Carriers
[2]!

:-) I thought of mentioning those, but found them a too-recent history. :-p

Regards,
Rudy Wieser