Uniform Naming Convention
Uniform Naming Convention
(networking)The basic format is:
\\\\servername\\sharename
where "servername" is the hostname of a network file server,and "sharename" is the name of a networked or shareddirectory. Note this is not the same as the conventionalMS-DOS "C:\\windows" directory name. E.g.
\\\\server1\\dave
might be set up to point to
C:\\users\\homedirs\\dave
on a server called "server1".
It is possible to execute a program using this conventionwithout having to specifically link a drive, by running:
\\\\server\\share\\directory\\program.exe
The undocumented DOS command, TRUENAME can be used to findout the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive.