mick wrote:

You only ever use the same logon password irrespective of how many
drives/folders/files you share. Not a different password for each
drive/folder/file.

Thanks mick for that clarification that my one password of "ultred/ultred"
works for all the shared folders.

In practice, I'll likely only share a single folder, probably at:
C:\data\hardware\ios\shared or something like that since my "data"
hierarchy is the only one that needs to be backed up off the machine.

Everything else on my Windows machine can be blown away and it wouldn't
matter one bit, by design.

The biggest small step is /identifying/ what protocol FileExplorer is using
to connect to Windows shares.

Is it SMB?

See reply above.

Hmmm... I saw this first ... so I'll look for a different post from you.
At the moment, I 'assume' it's SMB but I'll await your other reply.

Any mobile device is too small a screen and too limited in keyboard to be
worth the trouble when Windows already has Microsoft Office and a real
keyboard.

They are not read only apps, they are fully functionable.

Hmmmmm... without paying for them?
Or do you mean if you pay?

If they're fully functional for free, then I might download them again, but
not if they're just readers.