How to add a network location and refer to it with a drive letter

You map it as a drive letter,

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/map-an-ftp-drive-windows

Unless I'm missing something that doesn't explain how to map it as a drive letter.  It tells you how to add a network location.  I've all ready done that

You can see in the second screenshot the dropdown to select the drive letter you would like to use.    

"Specify the drive letter for the connection and the folder you want to connect it to"

I usually map drive letters to my shares.

That's on a machine in the same network, not a machine across the internet that you refer to using an dns name.

You need to look toward the bottom of the article where it refers to adding a network location to get a feel for what I'm trying to do.  Once you add the network location you have access to the data using explorer but not by accessing the folder structure using a drive letter

There are ways to do what you want to do but you will have to use a VPN tunnel.

On the site where your Windows 10 is, make sure that your router can act as a VPN server

Also make sure that your Windows 10 computer has a fixed IP (let's say it is 192.160.0.20)

From the remote PC connect to the router via VPN. When you have done that you will be able to map your shared drive as \\192.168.0.20\shared_folder

Another way to access your files is Teamviewer which has its own VPN feature which could be easier than the advice setup.

Finally: Dropbox.com might be an easier solution

Alex

Thanks for the help, I assumed I couldn't do it without a VPN but thought I would ask