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    Doesn't have to be FTP. One can install termux and run sshd for SCP/SFTP. Port would be 8022 when running as a normal user.
    – JoL
    Commented Jul 3 at 22:45
  • @JoL No SSHd implementation I am aware of implements the Android Storage Access Framework (SAF). Without that, it is pretty much useless for file-transfer on recent Android versions. There are FTP server implementations which employ SAF. They actually work.
    – Hermann
    Commented Jul 3 at 23:14
  • @Hermann SimpleSSHD on HarmonyOS 2.0.0 doesn't show me any directory, given permission to access the storage. Is it because it doesn't follow SAF? What FTP server implementations have you found that work?
    – Tim
    Commented Jul 4 at 0:31
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    Software recommendations are generally frowned upon here but since you want this problem to be solved: I find github.com/wolpi/prim-ftpd works reasonably well.
    – Hermann
    Commented Jul 4 at 9:06
  • Apart from FTP & SSH, KDEconnect also does a quite decent job in connecting phone and computer. It's not mounting the file system, but at least browsing and copying files in your graphical file browser works.
    – asdfex
    Commented Jul 4 at 10:30