>>>- If you want to send files from W10 directly to your Linux host, the host must run a protocol Windows understands e.g. SMB/CIFS [Samba], or run an FTP or NFS server and use appropriate client software on W10. Of course the Linux host firewall must be configured to allow client access
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>>Blind spot. It would probably be the easiest to just run a ftp server, but in my mind ftp is always somewhere out there, not something one uses at home. Forgot completely.
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>If you find yourself lashing together multiple steps to do something that should be easy, it's time to get another pair of eyeballs on the problem. Or have a beer and figure out some other way to cut the Gordian knot (which as I understand it originated somewhere in your neck of the woods).

A bit to the south, less than a day's drive. Macedonia is the next country to the south.

Anyway, I think I eventually got it done and probably the whole UT can rest now, my rants against M$ will be reduced. My two remaining windows machines (one virtual) are frozen at W7SP1, no updates. Which is not exactly the last non-invasive, no telemetry edition, but it at least allows you a whole order of magnitude more control than the latter editions do.