On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:26:55 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

What I like about you, Frank Slootweg, is that you think like I do.
o We both see the sheer brilliance of this WebDAV + "net use" solution
o It's not obvious - but - once you see it working - it's brilliant!
o I just wish I could get the syntax to work with FTP UNCs too!

I'm almost done with my experiments, where this is my tentative conclusion:
A. It's easy to mount MTP filesystems over USB as a "removable drive".
(Using MTPDrive crippleware.)
B. It's easy to connect WebDAV shares over WiFi as a "network location".
(Using native Windows.)
C: It's easy to connect WebDAV shares over WiFi as a "removable drive".
(Using native Windows - where the connection is "almost perfect".)
D. It's easy to connect FTP shares over WiFi as a "network location".
(Using native Windows - where the connection, inexplicably, is "less perfect".)
E. It's easy to mount FTP shares over WiFi as a "removable drive".
(Using DnD, ND, or, for some, FTPUse & SFTPNetDrive freeware).

Pretty much, this is the _simplest_ most _powerful_ solution I can find,
that uses (a) native Windows, or, if not, then (b) freeware, or, if not,
then (c) crippleware.

All I ask is for others to simplify the solution by (c) eliminating the
crippleware, or (b) eliminating the need for the additional freeware.

See also:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.comp.freeware/TaIlIMK2Nuw/IQQVQUkSBQAJ

I understand that what I request is not easy.
Likely 999 out of 1,000 people can't improve this solution from where I
leave it.

If anyone else _can_ move the technical ball forward, please do as the goal
is to enable _everyone_ to do what we can do with the least amount of
software possible, and always, with freeware if possible.