Do you mount your Android phone to Windows using a WebDAV server?

Today I mounted my entire Android phone (including the read-only part of the
file system, surprisingly so) mapped as a drive letter onto Windows 10.

The Windows command to mount Android as a drive letter onto Windows was:
C:\> net use X: \\192.168.0.2:8080\DavWWWRoot\ /USER:user passwd

I have a few questions because I could easily get one WebDAV server to work,
but it had ads and it wasn't GSF free, but I couldn't get another WebDAV
server to work that was ad free and gsf free.

This Android WebDAV server worked the first time I tried it:
WebDAV Server by *The Olive Tree*
Free, ad supported, requires GSF, Rated 3.5, 100K+ Installs
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.webdavserver>

But I prefer ad-free apps, so I next tried _this_ webdav server & it failed.
WebDAV Server - *BestDAV*, by ZQ Software
Free, ad free, GSF free, Rated 3.4, 5K+ Installs
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zq.webdav.app_free>

To be clear, the second webdav server worked for the most part but I
couldn't for the life of me get it to allow read and write to the entire
visible Android filesystem (i.e., the part you can normally write to).

By way of stark contrast, the first webdav server gave me read access to the
_entire_ Android file system (yes, even the system hierarchies) and write
access to the typical writeable areas of the Android file system.

I think it's all in the settings though, particularly of the permissions.
I even had to change a few things on Windows but it _still_ didn't work.

If you use a WebDAV server on Android to mount the entire Android phone as a
drive letter on Windows, which WebDAV server do you use?

I want to add it to a tutorial on making the Android phone seamless with
Windows but I don't want to recommend apps that have ads and which require
GSF if I don't have to.

So I need to ask you what your settings are.

On 20/04/2022 10:02, Andy Burnelli wrote:
> Do you mount your Android phone to Windows using a WebDAV server?

Yes all the time. It's quite exciting and it gives you something to do when you are feeling lonely. You don't have to masturbate. Mounting an Android phone has the same effect.

UPDATE:

I was hoping to find someone on this newsgroup whom I could learn from
who had used WebDAV servers to mount Android as a drive letter on Windows.
WebDAV Server by *The Olive Tree*
Free, ad supported, requires GSF, Rated 3.5, 100K+ Installs
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.webdavserver>

WebDAV Server - *BestDAV*, by ZQ Software
Free, ad free, GSF free, Rated 3.4, 5K+ Installs
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zq.webdav.app_free>

To give others an idea of the _power_ of WebDAV (over FTP, HTTP, SMB, etc.)
servers for mounting _non-root_ Android on Windows, notice that the scrcpy
command allows a drag and drop of APKs stored on Windows to Android.
<https://i.postimg.cc/wvsbcNBz/scrcpy05.jpg> Drag APK from Windows

Given the FOSS Google Play Store saves all APKs ever installed (simply by
checking the box to _not delete_ them after they're installed on Android...
<https://i.postimg.cc/V6tyDpNd/aurora17.jpg> Don't delete APKs postinstall

Basically files on Windows are directly accessible to Android as a drag and
drop while files on Android are _directly_ accessible to Windows as a drive.
<https://i.postimg.cc/hjkVFyqJ/scrcpy07.jpg> Android mounted as a Win drive
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On Usenet you can often find people who know more than you do about any
given topic, although they have to also be a purposefully helpful soul.

Andy Burnelli wrote:

> The purpose of this thread is to attempt to find someone who knows more than
> I do about setting up these WebDAV servers so that I can learn from them.

Today I used WebDAV to save an APK _directly_ from Windows to Android.
<https://i.postimg.cc/9FJMKYch/scrcpy21.jpg> Windows Drive: === Android

Had I wanted to, I could have downloaded to Windows and then I could have
dragged-and-dropped that APK from Windows over to Android without WebDAV.
<https://i.postimg.cc/wvsbcNBz/scrcpy05.jpg> Drag APK from Windows

But the problem I'm having with each of the two WebDAV servers is different:
a. With the "Olive Tree" WebDAV server on Android, I can mount "almost"
the entire Android file system (including the read-only root filesys!);
but I haven't yet figured out the syntax to mount the external sdcard.

b. With the "BestDAV" WebDAV server on Android, I can mount all three
file systems (root, sdcard, external sdcard) but I haven't yet figured
out the setting to make the sdcard & external sdcard read _and_ write.

For those reasons, I wanted to find someone else who already uses the WebDAV
servers on Android to mount Android file systems read/write onto Windows as
a Windows drive letter.

On 25.04.2022 13:16, Andy Burnelli wrote:

> For those reasons, I wanted to find someone else who already uses the WebDAV
> servers on Android to mount Android file systems read/write onto Windows as
> a Windows drive letter.

Some time ago I used

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.primftpd
https://github.com/wolpi/prim-ftpd

to transfer videos and music to a tablet for a child. On the PC
side you just use windows explorer for file transfer.

To play the videos/music I used:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc

And finally I found a qr-code scanner

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=la.droid.qr

which can autostart the video play.

Now all you have to is to scan a qr-code like this and
the selected video starts immediately to play.

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