{"id":91,"date":"2019-04-19T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2022-12-16T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:58:00","slug":"how-to-set-up-a-drive-in-a-windows-pc-as-network-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/19\/how-to-set-up-a-drive-in-a-windows-pc-as-network-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Up a Drive in a Windows PC as Network Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My server has a 4TB drive that I use for video archival and media storage. I have been using FileZilla Server to access the files stored on there, but I have been searching for a more seamless way to access the storage on the server for months and haven\u2019t been able to find anything! I finally figured out how to do it, so I thought it might be a good idea to write up a tutorial on how to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Allow network discovery and file sharing on both the client and server computers. <strong>I\u2019m not sure if you need a FileZilla server to be running on the server computer. If this tutorial doesn\u2019t work without FileZilla, setup FileZilla Server and then try it again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On the server computer, use the <em>net share<\/em> command to choose which folders\/drives are shared with the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syntax:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>net share Name=C:\\Path\nnet share Name \/delete<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On the client computer, right click on This PC and click&nbsp;\u201cMap network drive\u201d. Choose a drive letter and, under Folder, type the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\\Computer-Name\\Folder\\Name<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows might ask you for credentials. If it does, type in the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Username (substitute NAME for your Windows username on the server computer):&nbsp;<em><code>Computer-Name\\NAME<\/code><\/em><br>Password: The password you type in to login to the server computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 4 (optional)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want, right click on the network drive(s) you mounted and rename them to something you like.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My server has a 4TB drive that I use for video archival and media storage. I have been using FileZilla Server to access the files stored on there, but I have been searching for a more seamless way to access the storage on the server for months and haven\u2019t been able to find anything! I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nmoleosoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}