Does Dolphin support enumerating storage exposed by a connection between USB Dual Role devices?

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On Windows, connections over TB4 appear as Ethernet-accessible storage, via explorer.exe. [1] In dolphin, would it appear inside remote:/ (SMB:// or zeroConf:/)?

  1. superuser.com/revisions/1784608/3 ↩︎

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Per the undermentioned, I have been informed that my hardware should support it:

However, Dolphin doesn’t appear to register the Thunderbolt LAN that is automatically generated between the devices as accessible storage:

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What kind of sharing protocol does it uses ?

My guess would be samba, here the entry with the IPv6 local address.

Zeroconf is only for network. In your screenshot this works already.

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@meven, I thought so too, but that entry never loads, and it calls itself a Windows server.

Exactly how it’s done seems to be somewhat complex. You can see at the undermentioned that the Windows ≥ V10 driver requires a fair bit of architecting to facilitate communication amongst the relevant OS components:

That was why I also asked at Fedora’s forum, but nobody else was able to come half as close of a conclusion as even I was.

Regardless, that citation does mention the USB-IF’s OTG specification, and Wikipedia has a section headed “Protocols”, which contains 4 possible alternatives:

The section beneath it about device roles might also affect this determination.