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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote on Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:49:33 +0800 :

How could I map "This PC\Nokia 1234\Internal shared storage\" to a drive (e.g. E:\)?

Something like:

subst e: "This PC\Nokia 1234\Internal shared storage\"

I tried the subst command but it reported "Path not found"!

I mount the entire Android linux file system to Windows as a drive every
day - but - I don't use the Windows SUBST command to do that linux mount.
https://i.postimg.cc/2SxM8V16/rootfilesystem.jpg

This is what I use every day on Windows 10(via a batch script, of course):
net use I: \\192.168.0.2@8000\DavWWWRoot /USER:foo bar
net use X: \\192.168.0.2@9000\DavWWWRoot
Which is nicely summarized for you in this set of my own screenshots.
<https://i.postimg.cc/1zrmSmQc/davroot.jpg>

I add a few Win10 tricks to make external sd card syspath easier since you often use the Android linux command line to operate Android over Windows.
<https://i.postimg.cc/W3V7D7xc/webdav.jpg>

And, of course, I set the USB (or Wi-Fi) file transfer for the connection.
<https://i.postimg.cc/JnDTWH9M/usb01.jpg>

Here are just some representative examples of how Android === Windows/Linux
<https://i.postimg.cc/6371SxNd/mountandroidonwindows.jpg> Android mounted
<https://i.postimg.cc/k5F8sLbc/filesys01.jpg> Starting WebDAV servers
<https://i.postimg.cc/RZtw6WC2/filesys02.jpg> Mount Android system filesys
<https://i.postimg.cc/Zngy0SGT/filesys03.jpg> Look at /etc/resolv.conf
<https://i.postimg.cc/nzFmPTKt/filesys04.jpg> Can use the command line
<https://i.postimg.cc/PJF1ZZwn/filesys05.jpg> Look at the dnsproxy file
<https://i.postimg.cc/BvJdKWzt/webdav06.jpg> Both sdcards mounted
<https://i.postimg.cc/cJLK1wt0/webdav07.jpg> Mount the entire filesystem
<https://i.postimg.cc/qv6HJ7GN/webdav08.jpg> Each sdcard is a drive letter
<https://i.postimg.cc/D0qMxTMB/webdav09.jpg> FOSS general purpose solution
<https://i.postimg.cc/wM4Z45pN/webdav10.jpg> Free Android WebDAV servers
<https://i.postimg.cc/BQyRxCN9/webdav11.jpg> Mount sdcards read & write
<https://i.postimg.cc/yYWwgGmy/webdav12.jpg> As Windows drive letters
<https://i.postimg.cc/QtbR1GY0/webdav13.jpg> Over Wi-Fi on your home LAN
<https://i.postimg.cc/JhjpnRgh/webdav14.jpg> Mirroring Android on Windows
<https://i.postimg.cc/gcKXV6F7/webdav16.jpg> A third free WebDAV server

Once set up correctly, the Android file system is just a drive on Windows.
<https://i.postimg.cc/hjkVFyqJ/scrcpy07.jpg> Android mnt as drive letter
Such that you can slide APKs from Windows and they auto-install on Android.
<https://i.postimg.cc/wvsbcNBz/scrcpy05.jpg> Drag APK from Windows

The Windows (or Linux) keyboard, mouse, clipboard and sound cards all work perfectly with Android mirrored onto your PC monitor, using FOSS software.
<https://i.postimg.cc/5NrK7jtg/scrcpy16.jpg> powershell hide-console trick

One question I have of the linux experts is WHY, without being rooted, when
I mount the Android internal sdcard onto Windows, I can read most of the Android root filesystem, and write to some of the root filesystem, but not
all? <https://i.postimg.cc/2SxM8V16/rootfilesystem.jpg>

What's the difference?
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On 21/9/2024 4:15 am, Andrew wrote:

This is what I use every day on Windows 10(via a batch script, of course):
net use I: \\192.168.0.2@8000\DavWWWRoot /USER:foo bar
net use X: \\192.168.0.2@9000\DavWWWRoot
Which is nicely summarized for you in this set of my own screenshots.
<https://i.postimg.cc/1zrmSmQc/davroot.jpg>

Thanks. This solution involves the use of networking.
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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote on Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:24:34 +0800 :

This is what I use every day on Windows 10(via a batch script, of course): >> net use I: \\192.168.0.2@8000\DavWWWRoot /USER:foo bar
net use X: \\192.168.0.2@9000\DavWWWRoot
Which is nicely summarized for you in this set of my own screenshots.
<https://i.postimg.cc/1zrmSmQc/davroot.jpg>

Thanks. This solution involves the use of networking.

Assuming your Nokia "something" is an Android phone... below
are all the methods I know of to "seamlessly connect" it to a PC.

1. You can connect the Android phone to Windows 10 by Bluetooth,
by Wi-Fi (over the LAN or by ad hoc Wi-Fi) or by USB cable.

Most people just plug the phone into Windows (just like any other
USB device) and Windows automatically installs the driver for it.
*Install OEM USB drivers*
<https://developer.android.com/studio/run/oem-usb>

If the correct driver isn't installed, every manufacturer provides it.
Acer -> https://www.acer.com/worldwide/support/
Alcatel -> https://www.alcatelmobile.com/support/
Asus -> https://www.asus.com/support/Download-Center/
Blackberry -> https://swdownloads.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=4EE0932F46276313B51570F46266A608
Dell -> https://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavml
FCNT -> https://www.fcnt.com/support/develop/#anc-03
HTC -> https://www.htc.com/support
Huawei -> https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/index.htm
Intel -> https://www.intel.com/software/android
Kyocera -> https://kyoceramobile.com/support/drivers/
Lenovo -> https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/GlobalProductSelector
LGE -> https://www.lg.com/us/support/software-firmware
Motorola -> https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/88481/
MTK -> http://online.mediatek.com/Public%20Documents/MTK_Android_USB_Driver.zip
Samsung -> https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy/others/android-usb-driver-for-windows
Sharp -> http://k-tai.sharp.co.jp/support/
Sony -> https://developer.sonymobile.com/downloads/drivers/
Toshiba -> https://support.toshiba.com/sscontent?docId=4001814
Xiaomi -> https://web.vip.miui.com/page/info/mio/mio/detail?postId=18464849&app_version=dev.20051
ZTE -> http://support.zte.com.cn/support/news/NewsDetail.aspx?newsId=1000442

2. Either way (BT, Wi-Fi or USB) there are a multitude of connection tools.
Offhand, some of the Android/Windows file-sharing solutions are
AirDroid <https://www.airdroid.com/personal/>
ADB <https://developer.android.com/tools/adb>
AFT MTP client <https://whoozle.github.io/android-file-transfer-linux/>
DirectNetDrive <http://www.directnet-drive.net/>
FTPUse <https://www.ferrobackup.com/download/FtpUseInst.exe>
Fb-adb Android Linux shell <https://github.com/facebook/fb-adb>
Ftpuse <https://www.ferrobackup.com/map-ftp-as-disk.html>
Go-mtpfs MTP FUSE filesystem <https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs>
Gphotofs Camera Linux mount <http://www.gphoto.org/proj/gphotofs/>
JMTP FS <https://github.com/JasonFerrara/jmtpfs>
KDEconnect <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdeconnect>
Kies Connect <https://www.samsung.com/africa_en/support/kies/>
LibIconv <http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm>
LibMTP <https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs>
LibMTP <https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmtp/>
LibMTP library MTP implementation <http://libmtp.sourceforge.net>
LibUSB Win32 <http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/>
LibUsbK <https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32/>
LibiConv <http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm>
MTP support on KDE <https://cgit.kde.org/kio-mtp.git>
MTPDrive <http://mtpdrive.com/download.html>
MTPSync <https://www.adebenham.com/mtpsync/>
MTPdude <http://mtpdude.sourceforge.net>
MTPfs FUSE filesystem <https://www.adebenham.com/mtpfs/>
NetDrive 1.3.2.0 <https://filehippo.com/download_netdrive/12615/>
NetDrive 3.6.571 <http://netdrive.net/ (deprecated)
Nitroshare <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nitroshare.android>
PhoneLink <https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00083910/>
SFTP Net Drive <https://www.nsoftware.com/sftp/netdrive/>
SideSync <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sidesync.freeapp>
SMB Cifs (client) X-Plore <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore>
SMB Cifs (root) <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imperioustech.www.sambaserver>
Scrcpy/sndcpy <https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy>
Termux copy <https://github.com/termux>
WebDav <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.webdavserver>
WebDrive <https://webdrive.com/download/>
XNJB Mac OS X GUI <http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/>
(this is mostly offhand so I likely missed as many as I listed)

Personally, for myself, I'd mount the entire Android filesystem onto
Windows as a read/write Windows drive letter over Wi-Fi using WebDav.

See also FTPUse above which also creates a Windows networked share.

Or, if I'm running commands from Windows to disable, install or
otherwise manipulate applications, I use adb over Wi-Fi or USB.

If I'm already using adb, then I may as well use screencopy and
soundcopy to do _all_ the Android manipulations from the PC alone.

But most people just plug the Android phone into Windows to drag and
drop any file in the user partition between the devices using that PC.

3. Of those, plenty are ad hoc Wi-Fi & USB file-sharing solutions.
Kies Connect <https://www.samsung.com/africa_en/support/kies/>
Nitroshare <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nitroshare.android>
KDEconnect <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdeconnect>
FTPUse <https://www.ferrobackup.com/download/FtpUseInst.exe>

I've used every single one of them, where my suggestion is NitroShare
because of its simplicity (but all work, just in different ways).

4. You can set up Android to act differently whenever you connect to USB
Android12 Settings > Developer options > Default USB configuration
(o) Transferring files <---- AFAIK, this is the default
(_) USB tethering
(_) MIDI
(_) Transferring images
(_) Charging phone only
I wouldn't change this from the default of "Transferring files).

5. Of course, you can do everything using just adb (on Wi-Fi or USB).

First, find the name of the desired package:
C:\> adb shell pm list packages | findStr /i "osmand"
C:\> adb shell pm list packages <--- list all packages on the device
C:\> adb shell pm list packages -f -3 <--- list third-party packages
C:\> adb shell pm list packages -d <--- list only the disabled packages
C:\> adb shell pm list packages -s <--- list only the system packages
C:\> adb shell pm list packages -u <--- list only uninstalled packages
C:\> adb shell dumpsys package packages <--- list package information
C:\> adb shell pm dump net.osmand.plus <--- list info on a package

Find out the full path to the desired package:
C:\> adb shell pm path net.osmand.plus

Copy the installer (which is always saved on Android!) to Windows.
C:\> adb pull /data/app/long-nasty-path-net.osmand.plus/osmand-base.apk

With this method you can copy all the APKs over in one robocopy command.
C:\> adb shell dumpsys package packages | findStr /i ".apk$"
The result is every app ever installed gets a Windows backup of its APK.

Stop the desired package:
C:\> adb shell am force-stop net.osmand.plus

Disable the desired package:
C:\> adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 net.osmand.plus

Remove the desired package:
C:\> adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 net.osmand.plus

Note if adb can see it, then adb can copy it over to Windows.
C:\> adb pull "/data/data/com.pkg.test/files/" .

Even if you're not rooted (most people aren't) you can copy your
Windows HOSTS file to Android if you know a few of the tricks.
<https://superuser.com/questions/938751/i-am-trying-to-push-the-file-using-adb-to-my-android-device>

Note also that "local adb" eliminates the need for the Windows PC.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.draco.ladb>

5. Most Android phones have an sdslot so another option is to use
Android to put the video onto that sd card and pop it into the PC.

Having tested every single file copy method ever proposed on both
the Windows and Android newsgroups, my recommendation is simple:
a. Connect your Android phone to Windows by USB (for KISS simplicity).
b. If the phone doesn't show up in "My Computer" install OEM drivers.
c. Usually that works

If you can't get the OEM drivers to work, then I'd try the WebDav
servers on Android (unfortunately SMB servers on Android have issues).

If you can't get the WebDav servers to work, then I'd use adb with scrcpy/sndcpy which completely mirrors the phone onto the PC.

That's mostly what I do all day every day.

One advantage is my phone becomes 20 inches tall by 9 inches wide
on my computer monitor - and I can use the mouse, keyboard & clipboard.

Also, the sound is the one coming out of the computer and not the
phone - so I can loudly watch all the YouTube videos I want using either NewPipe or PipePipe (which is YouTube but without ever seeing an ad).
<https://newpipe.net>
<https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/>

<https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe>
<https://f-droid.org/en/packages/InfinityLoop1309.NewPipeEnhanced/>

The microphone though, is delayed, for reasons unknown to me,
which I've never been able to resolve so I turn one source off.
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On 22/9/2024 6:24 am, Andrew wrote:

Assuming your Nokia "something" is an Android phone... below
are all the methods I know of to "seamlessly connect" it to a PC.

Thank you....

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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote on Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:46:28 +0800 :

Assuming your Nokia "something" is an Android phone... below
are all the methods I know of to "seamlessly connect" it to a PC.

Thank you....

I'm always here, as is Paul and as are others, to help people out.
I suspect the lack of the "correct" drive "could" be the issue you face.

It's odd that only Nokia doesn't supply its own Android USB drivers.
<https://www.google.com/search?q=nokia+windows+android+driver>

Personally, I long ago forgot that the SUBST command even existed, so
here's a description of how to use SUBST in various circumtances.
<https://winaero.com/create-virtual-drive-from-a-folder-in-windows-10/>

For most of us who forgot about the SUBST command long ago, here are
examples of people mounting drives using SUBST in cmd & powershell.
<https://serverfault.com/questions/24400/in-windows-how-to-mount-folder-as-a-drive>

A search for the OP shows also that there is a "Virtual SUBST" program.
<https://www.ntwind.com/software/visual-subst.html>
"Visual Subst provides you with a clean, simple and distraction-free
user interface where you can manage all your virtual and network drives
at once. It solves four main issues with the built-in 'SUBST' and
'NET USE' commands: it enables editable drive labels, creates UAC drives
for elevated applications, manages Recycle Bin for deleted items
and it restores virtual drives after reboots."

This shows a guy with the opposite problem, in that he has the SUBST drive
and wants to get rid of it for his Android phone working with Windows.
<https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/local-disk-z-appeared-after-building-for-android/397713/8>

And this shows a guy on Android who is told SUBST was worse than Dokany
but that Round-sync was better (although it seems to mount SMB shares).
<https://community.cryptomator.org/t/unable-to-share-vault-on-local-network-when-using-winfsp-local-drive/12398/3>

Here is the Round Sync - Rclone for Android web page for those who care:
<https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync>

I downloaded it, to test it for the OP, but I'm going on a trip so I won't have results until later - but the OP might want to take a look at it.
<https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync/releases/tag/v2.5.6>
<https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync/releases/download/v2.5.6/roundsync_v2.5.6-oss-universal-release.apk>
Name: roundsync_v2.5.6-oss-universal-release.apk
Size: 116786852 bytes (111 MiB)
SHA256: F6827968A7D234CD5440F5C5CCD37F944D4E96C33180EBECEBBBE96992CDCE2F

It seems naturally intuitive to use SMB with Windows - so it's worth a try.
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Andrew wrote:

I'm always here, as is Paul and as are others, to help people out.

Where is here for you? I'm posting in alt.msdos.batch.nt.

It's odd that only Nokia doesn't supply its own Android USB drivers.

I think it's odd that it needs a special driver when my flip phone of 20
years ago would simply emulate a USB drive, so it didn't need a special driver. I know MTP works like a client-server database to prevent file corruption, but I don't see why the Windows version of the MTP protocol
can't include the ability to assign a drive letter, since Windows
depends on letters.

Personally, I long ago forgot that the SUBST command even existed, so

In alt.msdos.batch.nt we haven't even forgotten the REPLACE command but
XCOPY /U works better.

I even remember trying RECOVER on floppies but it never worked. Norton Utilities had an equivalent that did work.

A search for the OP shows also that there is a "Virtual SUBST"
program. <https://www.ntwind.com/software/visual-subst.html>
"Visual Subst provides you with a clean, simple and distraction-free
user interface where you can manage all your virtual and network
drives at once. It solves four main issues with the built-in
'SUBST' and 'NET USE' commands: it enables editable drive labels,
creates UAC drives for elevated applications, manages Recycle Bin
for deleted items and it restores virtual drives after reboots."

This shows a guy with the opposite problem, in that he has the SUBST
drive and wants to get rid of it for his Android phone working with
Windows. <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/local-disk-z-appeared-after-building-for-android/397713/8>

And this shows a guy on Android who is told SUBST was worse than
Dokany but that Round-sync was better (although it seems to mount SMB shares). <https://community.cryptomator.org/t/unable-to-share-vault-on-local-network-when-using-winfsp-local-drive/12398/3>

Here is the Round Sync - Rclone for Android web page for those who
care: <https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync>

I downloaded it, to test it for the OP, but I'm going on a trip so I
won't have results until later - but the OP might want to take a look
at it. <https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync/releases/tag/v2.5.6> <https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync/releases/download/v2.5.6/roundsync_v2.5.6-oss-universal-release.apk>
Name: roundsync_v2.5.6-oss-universal-release.apk
Size: 116786852 bytes (111 MiB)
SHA256:
F6827968A7D234CD5440F5C5CCD37F944D4E96C33180EBECEBBBE96992CDCE2F
It seems naturally intuitive to use SMB with Windows - so it's worth
a try.

--
Defund the Thought Police


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Tom Del Rosso wrote on Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:41:46 -0400 :

It's odd that only Nokia doesn't supply its own Android USB drivers.

I think it's odd that it needs a special driver when my flip phone of 20 years ago would simply emulate a USB drive, so it didn't need a special driver. I know MTP works like a client-server database to prevent file corruption, but I don't see why the Windows version of the MTP protocol can't include the ability to assign a drive letter, since Windows
depends on letters.

Well, let's clarify that word "needs" since my experience has been that
almost everything I plug into Windows that needs a driver, gets one.

The question here, is when things aren't working, do you have the "right" driver, and the answer is that Nokia doesn't seem to make that driver.

So the OP is stuck with whatever driver that Windows felt was appropriate. Obviously, my suggestion is the generic driver suggested by Google for adb.

That's because adb does everything you could want a program to do, although just plugging an Android phone into Windows pretty much works for everyone.

As far as I recall, we still don't know the OP's Android USB settings.
<https://i.postimg.cc/JnDTWH9M/usb01.jpg> USB default settings

Personally, I long ago forgot that the SUBST command even existed, so

In alt.msdos.batch.nt we haven't even forgotten the REPLACE command but XCOPY /U works better.

Yeah, I forget about XCOPY & ROBOCOPY myself, and I wrote, oh, way back in
the 90's I guess, entire twenty page tutorials on how to use DEBUG better.

I even remember trying RECOVER on floppies but it never worked. Norton Utilities had an equivalent that did work.

I don't even remember RECOVER, but I do remember losing every file and then gaining them back, minus the first character & minus the long file names.

Someone recently posted this powershell, though, for listing files in the
order they were created, which is useful when datestamps are necessary.

powershell

get-childItem | sort-object -prop lastWriteTimeUtc | forEach { "{0} {1}" -f $_.lastWriteTimeUtc.toString("yyyyMMddHHmmssffff"), $_.name } > dated.txt

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On 24/9/2024 10:33 pm, Andrew wrote:

So the OP is stuck with whatever driver that Windows felt was appropriate. Obviously, my suggestion is the generic driver suggested by Google for adb.

That's because adb does everything you could want a program to do, although just plugging an Android phone into Windows pretty much works for everyone.

As far as I recall, we still don't know the OP's Android USB settings.
<https://i.postimg.cc/JnDTWH9M/usb01.jpg> USB default settings

Give me some time... too many ideas to try. :)

Thank you all! May the Force and farces be with you!!!!

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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:52:03 +0800 :

As far as I recall, we still don't know the OP's Android USB settings.
<https://i.postimg.cc/JnDTWH9M/usb01.jpg> USB default settings

Give me some time... too many ideas to try. :)

My suggestion is to try only one. WebDav. It's the best, in my experience.

I've tested *every* (free) suggestion (which didn't require making an
account) that was ever suggested (to my knowledge) on the Windows
newsgroup, so my advice below is based on this one question only:
"How could I map "This PC\Nokia 1234\Internal shared storage\"
to a drive (e.g. E:\)?"

By that question, I "assume" you mean:
"How could I map an Android phone filesystem to a Windows drive letter?"

That one question, I've been doing for years, where this newsgroup has
helped me do that, so to give back to the newsgroup, my suggestion is this:

1. Install any free WebDav server on your Android phone, where I recommend:
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.webdavserver>
I notice it says it has ads. I don't see ads. I never see ads.
My version may be older or it could be my DNS server ad blocking.

There are other free WebDAV servers but that's the simplest, AFAIK.

2. Set it up the simplest way possible - use all the defaults as one
mistake in a path will screw you. Don't set up login/password either.
Wait until it's working fine before adding those complexities.

Note that nowhere does it say anywhere in any of these program
notes that they all default to "DavWWWRoot" meaning the home share.

3. Mount that default home share onto Windows, where I suggest you
set up Android Wi-Fi to your home LAN to be a static IP address.
C:\> net use P: \\192.168.0.2@8080\DavWWWRoot

Now your internal sd card is mounted as drive "P:" on Windows.
From there, you can get as fancy as you want to get.

For example, I've found I need a second WebDAV server to mount the external sdcard, and then you need to know the Android linux path to that card,
which is why I format all my sdcards with the same volume label.

One of the accidentally amazing things about mounting Android file systems
onto Windows as a drive letter is, for some reason, even though you're not rooted, you can read (and write to) most of the file system, even parts
which you can't even see directly from the phone itself.

If someone can explain that magic to me, I'd love to know why that happens.
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Andrew wrote on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:34:33 -0000 (UTC) :

Note that nowhere does it say anywhere in any of these program
notes that they all default to "DavWWWRoot" meaning the home share.

To the OP, I can't stress how IMPORTANT that sentence is above, as not
knowing that sentence cost me probably days (elapsed time) in getting the solution to work because you're at the mercy of file specifications and how they may differ between Android and Windows when you mount your sd card.

It's actually surprisingly shocking that not only is "DavWWWRoot"
universally used by all WebDav servers (AFAIK), but NONE of them seem to
tell you that. WTF?

I don't get it - but it cost me a lot of time NOT knowing that keyword.

It shows up nowhere in the settings. Nowhere in the help. Nowhere.
You are supposed to magically know it.

Now you know this is the *simplest* connection you can perform:
net use E: \\192.168.0.2@8080\DavWWWRoot

But there's a lot more you can do once you get that simple setup going.
net use /?
The syntax of this command is:

NET USE
[devicename | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [password | *]]
[/USER:[domainname\]username]
[/USER:[dotted domain name\]username]
[/USER:[username@dotted domain name]
[/SMARTCARD]
[/SAVECRED]
[/REQUIREINTEGRITY]
[/REQUIREPRIVACY]
[/WRITETHROUGH]
[[/DELETE] | [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]]

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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:51:28 -0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:

It's actually surprisingly shocking that not only is "DavWWWRoot"
universally used by all WebDav servers (AFAIK), but NONE of them seem to
tell you that. WTF?

The reason is that DavWWWRoot has absolutely nothing to do with Android.

Nor does DavWWWRoot have anything to do with the Android Webdav server APK.
You could grep Android Webdave server source code & you'd never find it.

Nobody on Android knows about it but those on Windows use it all the time.

It's a Windows-only keyword so only people who know Windows know of it. https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/What-exactly-is-DavWWWRoot/td-p/1827535

Everyone who knows Windows well has been using it for years though. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/sharepoint-explorer-mapping-folders-via-davwwwroot/7e121644-d3df-4001-a624-c5b7d6541013

It's just not something Android users have come across before. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21706142/what-is-davwwwroot

DavWWWRoot is a special keyword recognized by Windows Shell. There is no
such folder on your WebDAV server and you should not create it. You also
will not find any DavWWWRoot name in requests to your server. The
DavWWWRoot keyword tells the Windows Mini-Redirector driver, which handles WebDAV requests, that you are connecting to the root of WebDAV server.

So if you knew Windows like everyone else does, you'd have known that the reason it's not mentioned anywhere in your Android documentation is that
it's a common Windows variable (much like %Path% & %Comspec% are).
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On 25/9/2024 7:09 am, Bill Powell wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:51:28 -0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:

It's actually surprisingly shocking that not only is "DavWWWRoot"
universally used by all WebDav servers (AFAIK), but NONE of them seem to
tell you that. WTF?

The reason is that DavWWWRoot has absolutely nothing to do with Android.

Nor does DavWWWRoot have anything to do with the Android Webdav server APK. You could grep Android Webdave server source code & you'd never find it.
....
So if you knew Windows like everyone else does, you'd have known that the reason it's not mentioned anywhere in your Android documentation is that
it's a common Windows variable (much like %Path% & %Comspec% are).

Well... I just don't understand why the Command Prompt cannot do
whatever File Explorer is doing, including merely a drive letter for a
folder visible to File Explorer via a command. Maybe Powershell is the
new hope? I dunno....

It's unrelated to Android nor iOS. :)
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:25:13 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Well... I just don't understand why the Command Prompt cannot do
whatever File Explorer is doing, including merely a drive letter for a folder visible to File Explorer via a command. Maybe Powershell is the
new hope? I dunno....

It's unrelated to Android nor iOS. :)

DavWWWRoot is a special keyword recognized by Windows Shell so you should
be able to do what you want, if you run a webdav server on Windows.

Have I done that? No. But why shouldn't you be able to run a Windows webdav server & set DavWWWRoot to the desired nokia device on the command line?

Maybe you can install & test a Windows webdav server from this listing. https://medevel.com/15-os-webdav-servers/

After the Windows webdav server is running, I see batch mount scripts here. https://help.nextcloud.com/t/2023-which-is-the-best-free-webdav-client-with-drive-letter-assignation-windows/157294/3

This says you need to set the registry BasicAuthLevel Value data to 2. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-map-webdav-in-windows

Let us know how it works, as I see no reason (yet) why it shouldn't work to mount anything you can see in the Windows file explorer as a drive letter.
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On 25/9/2024 10:20 pm, Bill Powell wrote:

...
Let us know how it works, as I see no reason (yet) why it shouldn't work to mount anything you can see in the Windows file explorer as a drive letter.

Thank you all again!
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