Fokke Nauta wrote on Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:21:33 +0100 :
> Good idea. Can you give me an example of how to do that?
It's not only a "good idea" but it's one of the "best ideas" on
Windows to *mount* your Android phone as a drive letter over Wi-Fi.
That way you can save DIRECTLY to Android (or to Windows).
You can copy DIRECTLY to Android (or to Windows).
It has been described and discussed a thousand times already
on both the Android and Windows newsgroups, so I'll just summarize.
There are very few things you can do that have no cons, only pros.
This is one of them as I can't think of a single thing bad about it.
Here's what I'd recommend you do...
1. Install any free WebDAV server on Android, for example one of these.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zq.webdav.app_free
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.webdavserver
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slowscript.httpfileserver
2. When you set it up, that determines the Windows "Net Use" arguments
For example, the default root is always "DavWWWRoot".
The default port is usually "8080".
There is no default user, so you can set that up to anything.
It doesn't have to be the user/password on Windows.
The IP address is whatever the phone's IP address is.
Generally if you do this every day, then you want it to be static.
3. Here's an example command assuming those arguments were set above.
net use Z: \\192.168.1.160@8080\DavWWWRoot
net use Z: \\192.168.1.160@8080\DavWWWRoot /USER:fake paswd
net use Z: \\192.168.1.160@8080\DavWWWRoot /USER:fake paswd /persistent
> Net use Z: \\192.168.1.160 (which port?) \Mountpoint /USER:slauf password
> Should that work?
a. The port is set up when you set up the free WebDAV server
b. The username & password are optional
c. But if that's what you set them up as, then that will work
There are lots of setup guides for doing this since WebDAV is the best
way (IMHO) to set up Android to be permanently mounted on Windows as a
drive letter (where the /persistent controls that permanence).
https://www.google.com/search?q=mount+webdav+drive+letter+windows
Here are some that popped up from that search.