Windows-ology: UNCs

• Universal Naming Convention (UNC)

• \\neelix is a UNC for neelix.radford.edu (if you are logged into the RADFORD domain in Windows)

• General format:

  • \\<server_name>\<share_name>
  • Server name is name of server,
  • Share name is name of shared directory (somewhere) on that server
  • Not necessarily at file system location c:\share_name

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