mick wrote:

It does seem to be SMBv2 if you look at the settings (gear wheel) in
FE. Well, it is switched on by default on my iPad.

Hi mick,

That makes lots of sense that File Explorer uses SMB to share files with
Windows, where it's actually an SMC "client", whereas the WiFi HD app on
iOS seems to be an SMB server (in addition to being an HTTP & FTP server).
http://i.cubeupload.com/ykPqDI.jpg

The fact that File Explorer seems to be an SMB client means that, probably,
all I have to do is get Samba working on Linux, which serves SMB shares
over Linux, where File Explorer won't know the difference between the Linux
\\DESKTOP\share and the Windows \\DESKTOP\share
https://www.computerbeginnersguides....tful-aardvark/


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

They are free. No harm installing them, if you don't like just
uninstall them again.

Well, if MS Office is really free on iOS, where they can /edit/ files, then
I'll try it (again) after all these years, but I'm too experienced to
believe that they're free...

1. I installed Microsoft PowerPoint Word & Excel on the iPad.
2. On the desktop, I picked up these sample ppt, doc, and xls files:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/to...amplepptx.pptx
https://www2a.cdc.gov/cdcup/library/...n_Template.doc
https://mdcune.psych.ucla.edu/module...ample_data.xls
3. I copied those files over to the File Explorer \\DESKTOP\share folder
4. I tap on each inside of File Explorer which brings them up
5. I hit the share button in that editor which allows the MS Office app
In each app, it says "Read Only - You can't save changes to this file."

The free iOS MS Office is just readers, which is what they always were.
PPT: http://i.cubeupload.com/F6TX2D.jpg
DOC: http://i.cubeupload.com/ggcSBX.jpg
XLS: http://i.cubeupload.com/ubMHjc.jpg

So I deleted all three apps, as they're no better than having nothing since
the Apple no-name tool reads them all too.