Arlen Holder wrote:
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I have one key question for anyone on this ng who knows Windows well, which
is whether my "assumption" is accurate that we need to "mount" the Android
filesystem as a "removable drive" (i.e., with a "drive letter") in order to
be able to run any Windows command on that Android filesystem?
You do not *need* a drive letter, because 'DOS' commands can also use
a Network Share (in contrast to a Network Drive). For example:
dir \\DISKSTATION\Frank
Where 'DISKSTATION' is my NAS.
The only limitation I'm aware of, is that you cannot 'cd' into a
Network Share, while you can 'cd' into anything which has a drive
letter:
C:\home\frankscd \\DISKSTATION\Frank
'\\DISKSTATION\Frank'
CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.
C:\home\frankscd M:
M:\
That said, having a drive letter is a *nice* thing to have, as most of
the solutions you mention, need one anyway.
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o WiFi + "network location" + "net use" (to get a drive letter)
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8605173dir05.jpg
Hmmm! This seems to be a nice one! I can't remember seeing you use
'net use' by itself.
Does this setup mean you have:
- A WebDAV server - i.e. extra software - on your Android device.
- *No* *extra* software ('net use' is part of Windows) on your Windows
device.
?
If so, I think this is the best WiFi solution sofar (till you get a
(non-root) SMB server on Android to work).
I have no experience with 'weird' UNC paths such as the one you're
using ('\\192.168.1.6@8080\DavWWWRoot\'), but it would be interesting to
see if you can use such UNC paths directly in a 'DOS' command, i.e.
*without* assigning a drive letter with 'net use'.
I.e. like I can use (see above)
dir \\DISKSTATION\Frank
perhaps you can use something like
dir \\192.168.1.6@8080\DavWWWRoot
Note: Something *like* that. I'm not saying that exact syntax is
correct.
My suggestion might seem silly: Using a drive letter (X
is much
cleaner than the '192.168.1.6@8080\DavWWWRoot' mess, but as you can put
this 'mess' into an environment variable, it can be made clean, i.e.
dir %Android%\Mobi_Usage_AppBackup
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As always, this effort is for everyone - so please improve where you can!