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UNC Last modified: Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Short for Universal Naming Convention or Uniform Naming Convention, a PC format for specifying the location of resources on a local-area network (LAN). UNC uses the following format: \\server-name\shared-resource-pathname So, for example, to access the file test.txt in the directory examples on the shared server silo, you would write: \\silo\examples\test.txt You can also use UNC to identify shared peripheral devices, such as printers. The idea behind UNC is to provide a format so that each shared resource can be identified with a unique address. UNC is supported by Windows and many network operating systems (NOS's).