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Universal Naming Convention

(UNC) The type of file system path used in Microsoft Windows networking to completely specify a directory on a file server. The basic format is:

 \\servername\sharename

where "servername" is the hostname or IP address of a network file server, and "sharename" is the name of a shared directory on the server. This is related to the conventional MS-DOS "C:\windows" style of directory name. E.g.

 \\server1\dave

might be set up to point to

 C:\users\homedirs\dave

on a server called "server1". The undocumented DOS command, TRUENAME can be used to find out the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive. Even Microsoft don't know whether UNC stands for "Universal Naming Convention" or "Uniform Naming Convention". Sometimes both appear within the same document, but with a preference for "Universal".

Last updated: 2008年12月09日

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