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This does get at the heart of it.

But my problem is that, surely Windows itself has this service providing "somehow" that I can know where in the world the computer is, and from there, make it some kind of network drive?

Like what I do between the kitchen and the bedroom only, 30 miles away. As the user, I see `C:/` `D:/` `fifer82:/`. Unless it is literally that easy, it won't happen.

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No, you can’t do that, because Windows allows you to share on a local network, but not the entire world.

And sharing that drive on the open internet would be a really, really bad idea.

Thank you, so in the very end, you must go through a service of some kind to make this possible? Not arsed about security.

Yes, this feature is not available in a standard Windows installation for a number of reasons.

You’ll need to use some kind of 3rd party tool to configure and maintain such a setup

You can connect to that computer using ssh

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