How to mount a network drive in Windows 8.1

[Blexfraptor]

When we set up a small domestic network, many times and especially with the boom of network hard drives, we usually mount a unit (a NAS or simply a hard drive directly connected to the router) or we decided to share a hard drive or local folder from a computer to all the others so that they can store their data in ours.

There are many ways to access a remote hard drive, for example, by mounting an FTP server, however, Windows (and other operating systems) have a specially designed function to mount network units in our operating system and manage them as if they were it will be a hard drive physically installed in our computer.

The only requirement we must meet to make use of this function is that both the network unit and our computer belong to the same local network and to the same working environment.

We must click on the icon of My Computer on the Windows 8.1 desktop and select the option "Connect to a network drive".

A new window will open in which we will configure the network unit to which we will connect.

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In the "Unit" section we will configure the letter that we want to assign to the new network unit to which we are going to connect. By default, Windows starts naming from Z to differentiate local units (first letters) from network units (last letters).

In the section "Folder" we will introduce the route of our network unit. We can do it through the IP of the unit or from the relative route of the domain of said unit. To not complicate us, we can also use the "Browse" button and look for it in the file browser as if it were a computer within a local network.

To finish, we will mark the option "Connect again when logging in" so that when the system is started, we automatically connect to our unit. Click on finish and after a few seconds we can see the new network unit in "Computer" as if it were a hard drive more connected to the system.