mick wrote:

Well, perhaps we both got it slightly wrong with the Office apps.
When creating a new file in Excel or Word on the iPad, then no, you
cannot save it to windows unless you have an Office subscription.

BUT

You can load a file on the iPad from windows, work on it, and any
changes will be saved to the file that resides on windows.

Hi Mick,
Wow. I didn't realize that. I didn't test that out as I'm working on the
SMB stuff, so we can take up what the free Office apps allow to write to at
a future date.

I have been successful getting Linux SMB set up which simply entailed
setting up Samba, which worked, almost, the first time, where I easily
copied a file from Linux over to the SMB server inside of WiFi HD.
https://cubeupload.com/im/CiV2ox.jpg

The Linux setup, as you can imagine, took a little getting used to:
http://i.cubeupload.com/eWxdCE.jpg

After I set up an SMB server (aka Samba) & client (aka smbclient) on Linux,
the File Explorer app you recommended, which is an SMB client, can "see"
the Linux smb shares too.
http://i.cubeupload.com/H6ztFQ.jpg

I also tried the "rmanager" smb client on iOS, which could also see the
Linux SMB shares.
http://i.cubeupload.com/kkcpp6.jpg

I think most of my issues with SMB are purely setup related, since I have
never dealt with SMB before. For example, on Linux, I tried to mount the
iOS SMB share, but failed.

mkdir ~/mount
sudo mount //192.168.1.7/share ~/mount -o username=x,password=x
mount error(95): Operation not supported
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)


sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.7/ ~/mount/ -o rw
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=x,password=x //192.168.1.7/Documents ~/mount
sudo umount ~/mount

So one question is, given the known SMB share of:
smb://192.167.1.7/Documents

Since anyone would want to mount the SMB shares on Windows too, I wonder if
anyone here knows how to mount SMB shares on Windows (or Linux)?