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Connect to specific smb folder on iOS device

We have iPad's 4th gen running iOS 16.4.1 and are using the Apple Files app to connect to an SMB share; Windows 2022 server shared folder. I can connect to the server and I am shown all the shared on the shared server. I want to connect to a specific shared folder and have tried to set the server connection to smb://server/specificfolder and the connection does not work. Is there a way to connect to a specific windows shared folder?

iPad Air (4th generation)

Posted on Apr 26, 2023 8:25 AM

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Mark_kmc Author

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Posted on Apr 26, 2023 2:17 PM

Yes it is. We connected using file://ipaddress/sharedfolder and it worked fine. After connecting this way we then tried smb://servername/sharedfolder and it now authenticates. Previously when connecting only the smf://servername worked and then all folders were shown. Maybe we typed a wrong character previously or using the IP address somehow updated a cache setting or something. Either way it works fine.

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