ultred ragnusen wrote:

Right now, for whatever reason, File Explorer won't connect to Windows, so,
I may need to start over. Sigh.
http://i.cubeupload.com/XLmc84.jpg

There are no usable error messages so I don't even know how to
troubleshoot.

Well, I solved that connectivity problem above simply by rebooting Windows
and rebooting the iPad, where I'm pretty sure it was Windows that screwed
up.

That's one thing about Windows networking that I've learned over the years
using FTP servers and FTP URIs in the network neighborhood. Windows is
flaky as hell. It works. Then it stops working. You reboot. And it works
again.

Flaky as hell is Windows networking. Sigh.

Anyway, once I rebooted Windows, File Explorer connected without me
changing anything on File Explorer and your suggestion of moving over a
picture from File Explorer to Windows shared folders worked perfectly.

I can't see into any of the "dollar" folders (e.g., C$, D$, etc.) but I can
see easily into the "Users" folder, so that's likely because it's the only
place anything is shared, by default.

So I created this directory on Windows and shared it as "share":
C:\data\ipad\share\
http://i.cubeupload.com/d5gzyV.jpg
Where the upload from iOS to that share worked fine:
http://i.cubeupload.com/3mJnSz.jpg

This share location should allow two-way sharing over WiFi, which is
perfect - but I still haven't seen the answer whether this is SMB or not
(did I miss it?).

This is the result on Windows - but I have to test if it works with Linux:
http://i.cubeupload.com/gp8laa.jpg

Do you know if Linux can handle these types of URIs?
\\DESKTOP\share