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The Microsoft Windows UNC, short for Universal Naming Convention or Uniform Naming Convention

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Browse an UNC path using Windows CMD without mapping it to a network drive

C:\> cd \\somewhere '\\somewhere' CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories. What I usually do to get around this is to map that directory to a network drive and then I could easily access it from the command prompt. But is there an…
Andreas Grech
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Copy UNC network path (not drive letter) for paths on mapped drives from Windows Explorer

I frequently want to share Windows network paths to files with other folks on my team via email or chat. We have a lot of mapped drives here, both ones we set up ourselves and ones set up by our IT overlords. What I'd like to be able to do is to…
Ernest Mueller
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Finding the physical local path associated with a Share UNC folder

Let's say I am Admin on a server named "Server1" and a share exists using the UNC path \\\Server1\Share1. If I remote to Server 1 and log in as Admin, how do I find the physical drive location without scanning millions of folders given that a share…
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How can I convert a UNC Windows file path to a File URI without using any 3rd party tools or by hand?

In a blog post from Microsoft they illustrate how a URI can be written to specify local system file paths. When sharing the path to network share files some chat programs will open these files in a browser. So I hand code the changes needed to turn…
Gabriel Fair
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Windows 7: Unable to browse to network shares in Explorer, but "map network drive" works fine

I've got a rather interesting problem cropping up on a few machines right now. I've got a bunch of Windows 7 machines networked with a workgroup at home. I used to be able to simply open the "Run" box and type in "\\computername\sharename" to…
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What is the difference between forward slashes and backslashes in paths?

Possible Duplicate: Why does Windows use backslashes for paths and Unix forward slashes? What is the main difference between forward slash (/) and backslash (\) in reference to paths, both remote and local? If I recall correctly, backslash is…
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How do I create a shortcut that opens Cygwin bash shell on a directory of my choosing (UNC especially)?

Given a standard installation of Cygwin for Windows XP, I would like to create a standard Explorer shortcut that opens a bash shell already open on a directory of my choosing. The directory is a UNC path. The standard cygwin.bat doesn't work because…
Kit
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UNC Paths in Google Chrome

We have an internal wiki setup and do a lot of linking to files on internal shares. We typically use this format (where Share is the name of the server): This works in FireFox (after modifying the…
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UNC Path to photos on iPhone on Windows XP

I would like to manipulate (copy and/or move) the photos I took with my iPhone from the command line or a Perl script. But when I plug the iPhone, it doesn't get a drive letter: in 'My Computer', it's displayed in the 'Scanners and Cameras' group,…
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How to access mapped directory from a windows service

As a rule of thumb Windows services can't access mapped drives and you have to use UNC paths instead. I'm convinced that there's a way around this so that a Windows service can access a mapped drive but I can't find it anywhere. My specific case is…
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Can't access shared folder of win8/win7 machine - Error code: 0x80004005. Unspecified Error

It's ironic that I, software engineer with 12 years of experience, continue to have this problem from one version of Windows to another without being able to achive consistent result (sometimes it works). Here it goes again. I have a machine with…
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How to link to a subfolder of a share?

On my Windows XP server, a folder called Share2 is shared. It contains a subfolder called folder3. The guest account is protected by a password, which means network users have to type the guest password to access it. When a user types…
Nicolas Raoul
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Accessing X$ share on a personal computer

I need to access some of my hard drives on my desktop PC from my laptop without setting a public share folder. I run Windows 7 Ultimate on both When I try to connect to \mycomputer\e$ it asks me for password (it's OK), but when I type "MYCOMPUTER\DJ…
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Windows 7 NTFS Symbolic Link - Network Share Availability/Timeout

In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, is there a way to quickly detect if the target of a symbolic link is available? For example, a symbolic link is created to a remote share UNC using the following command, mklink /D c:\test…
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What is the UNCServer process running on my WIndows 10 Laptop?

I have a Lenovo i5 Laptop. There is always a UNCServer process running. Is there some way to identify what that process is doing? Some details of my laptop (from System info): Windows 10 Home Build 19044 2Tb hard drive 8 Gb ram Page File Space…
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