Mounting a remote Windows drive on a local Windows machine

I have access through Remote Desktop Connection to a Windows 7 machine. I believe that Remote Desktop allows me to mount the local drive on the remote machine, but I would like to do the opposite: mount a remote Windows 7 drive on my local Windows machine (running XP in my specific case).

Solution 1:

Since you are using remote desktop to connect to the Win7 machine I am assuming you are on the same network as that machine? If so just set the remote C: drive up as a share, give permission to "Everyone" or a specific user account that you have on the remote machine, and then map the drive on your local machine using "Map a network drive" with the remote machine's ip address and the share name that you setup. Let me know if this works or you need further detail. Thanks!

Solution 2:

Sorry, you cannot so what you want to do using Remote Desktop.

The best way to do that would be to set up a VPN, and then you could map the remote drives.