Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

I've never dealt with Windows networking, except for Samba letting me mount Linux drives on Win10 (or maybe mounting Windows drives on Linux, it's been a few years). My UID/GID and permissions in ...

The method I used before in Windows 2k, to read files from a Linux partition, was to install ext2fsd, then mount the Linux drives somewhere using the "Disk Management" tool.