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A UNC path unambiguously specifies the location of a volume, directory, file or other local or remote resource on Windows.

On Windows, a UNC path specifies the location of a local or remote resource, including files, directories, volumes and more. UNC path generalize traditional file paths. A UNC path has the form \\Hostname\Folder\Resource. A UNCW path (long UNC) has the form \\?\UNC\Hostname\Folder\Resource.

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Amazon S3 and UNC paths

I'm experimenting with Amazon AWS S3. The documentation contains a lot of information about URLs to make buckets available, but I'm having a hard time to find information how to setup UNC paths. Some of our applications need UNC paths to read and…
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Error vb.net - Operation must use an updateable query

I have a data driven application coded in VB 2008 & ms access database. The application was working fine with Windows XP (SP3 32bit). But after upgrade of OS from windows xp to windows 7 (both 32 bit) I started receiving this error. After trials and…
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Copy file from FTP site to NFS share in Windows

We have setup a NFS share(//191.232.xx.xxx/export/share) in windows and mapped to Z:. Now we need copy a file from FTP server to Z:. When we try following it works Z:\> (share NFS) ftp server.com ftp>get text.file Above copies the file to…
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Shortcut to ps1 file on unc path not working

Im trying to open a ps1 file that is in a UNC folder on the network using a shortcut. it works on a local c: drive with no spaces in the name The shortcut target is set to the below C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe…
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MS Access error 6124 when using UNC path to a .doc template

I am using the Word Document template to create a letter from Access database. From the form in Access I can select records which are used to generate a letter based on predefined template. The template is located in the server. The users have…
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How to download a file from a UNC mapped share via IIS and ASP

I am writing an ASP application that will serve files to clients through the browser. The files are located on a file server that is available from the machine IIS is running on via a UNC path (\server\some\path). I want to use something like the…
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Shared SQL Database on UNC Share with Entity Framework

I have an application that uses Entity Framework 6 and an SQL database. The application has been built and tested on my local machine which is on a large corporate company network. The database needs to be available to a handful of users (usually…
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how to open network pdf files using file:/// in asp.net

How to open a file using file:// using asp.net or Jquery. Bewlo is sample code that I tried but could not work.
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SQLIOSIM fails to start when using UNC path

I'm trying to run SQLIOSIM on NAS cluster's NTFS shared folder. Here's the command line: sqliosim.com -dir \\c16\vol1cifs -size 512 -d 600 But it repeatedly fails to create files during the setup due to following error: Error: 0x80070057 Error…
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get local path regardless of how user browsed to it

I have an app that i have built, and i have placed it on a share drive on a server in order to distribute it to other users. However, i want the application to check where it is being launched, and if it is being launched directly on the share,…
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Webbrowser Silverlight 4 Control and UNC Share

I need to open documents in the WebBrowser control (SL 4) which is located on a UNC share, i think it's not possible without installing something on the client box... (COM object, physical link...) What do you think ?
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Conversion of Mapped drive path to UNC doesn't work in IIS

I am working on web application where we have some mapped drives. I want to get the UNC path from Mapped drive. I am using WNetGetConnection to get UNC path. It works perfectly when i run it from visual studio but it doesn't work when i check the…
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ASP.NET Access to path '\\xxxx' is denied

I know this has come up in other questions, but none seem as simple: I have a UNC share on another machine, with security set to Full Control for Everyone. If I log into my web server, I can access this share. However when I try to access it using…
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Need to create a regex to match a UNC administrative share

I am trying to come up with a regex that will match the following. file://server-name-01/e$/(any file or subfolder)?ds=test_01 Below is the expression i've been working with but for some reason this will match any server name.…
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Create XML file in UNC path in C#

I'm trying to create an XML in an UNC path, using C#, but I'm getting the error "Access denied". What I'm trying to do is: doc.Save(@"\\someshare\somefolder\anotherfolder"); (the rest of the code is correct, I already tried on a local folder) I…
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