I think you are making an understandable misreading (but perhaps i am!). MTP is a standard promulgated by the USB Implementers Forum [1], just like the mass sto

I think you are making an understandable misreading (but perhaps i am!). MTP is a standard promulgated by the USB Implementers Forum [1], just like the mass storage or human interface device protocols. What that paragraph means is that on Windows, MTP is dealt with by the media framework, as opposed to being part of the storage subsystem, as SMB and NFS are. Why is why you can't access MTP devices as if they were volumes on Windows. [1] https://www.usb.org/document-library/media-transfer-protocol-v11-spec-and-mtp-v11-adopters-agreement https://www.usb.org/document-library/media-transfer-protocol...