Case sensitivity (or StringComparison) of network shares?

Asked Sep 27 '15 at 13:39

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What is the case sensitivity of names of network shares?

Example from UNC path: (the sharename component only)

\\hostname\sharename\directoryname1\directorynameN\filename.ext

Can sharename be case-sensitive on some systems?
Is the best .net StringComparison for share names OrdinalIgnoreCase/Ordinal?
(I am asking because ordinal comparisons are not automatically everywhere – for example NetBIOS server names seem to use CurrentCulture comparison – well... not exactly, but closest to it.)

I was unable to find good resource which discusses case sensitivity and allowed characters for names of network shares.

edited Oct 08 '15 at 13:37

asked Sep 27 '15 at 13:39

miroxlav

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