Questions tagged [unc]
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How do you handle "CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories"?
I am attempting to change directories to a file server such as:
cd \\someServer\\someStuff\
However, I get the following error:
CMD does not support UNC paths as
current directories
What are ...
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Windows 7 search not showing results from mapped Server 2008 R2 share
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 network share setup as a map drive in Win 7 x64. I want to search it via Windows 7 but I always get "no items match your search". It's as though it's not even ...
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Permissions issue with virtual directory to UNC path
I have a virtual directory in my site (test environment). It is a UNC share which is also used as a public FTP.
It is configured to connect as a domain admin account and "Test settings" says ...
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How do I reconnect to a UNC share using different credentials
I connected to my NAS using windows explorer, by entering \\DS412 in windows explorer. It prompted me for a username and password. I entered them and then the DS412 showed up under Network in Explorer....
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Windows share: The specified network name is no longer available
We've got an EMC NX4 SAN box serving a CIFS share to a number of Windows Server 2008 R2 app servers. The app servers are using the CIFS share to serve lots of image files (~2500 ops/sec on the share), ...
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Why do things break when using DFS/Folder Redirection?
Here are two slightly different, but similar scenarios:
There is an S:\ drive mapped to \\server\share. A DFS namespace is then implemented, with S:\ changed to \\domain.local\dfs\share (which is ...
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Is there a performance difference between using local drives and equivalent UNC paths?
These two paths are equal:
\\myhostname\c$\temp
c:\temp
Is there a performance difference between them? Specifically, long sequential reads and writes.
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Windows file explorer using port 80 (webdav) instead of 445 (samba smb cifs) for UNC path
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate x86_64 machine, which is failing to access a network samba server. I launch the "Run" dialog, and type in \\192.168.x.x so I am bypassing DNS and NetBIOS name ...
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Adding virtual directory in IIS which points to shared path on another machine without AD
I have machines EXTERNAL and INTERNAL (lets call them EXT and INT).
Both machines are not part of AD (no network accounts, only local ones) and both machines have Administrator accounts using ...
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UNC Shortcut vs Mapped Network Drive
Is there any fundamental difference between mapping a network share and using a UNC shortcut in Windows (aside from the obvious loss of a drive letter)?
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How do I configure IIS to allow access to network resources for PHP scripts?
I am currently working on a PHP front-end that joins together a series of applications running on separate servers; many of these applications generate files that I need access to, but these files (...
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Can you prevent IIS7/8 from monitoring UNC paths for web.config changes?
I have a web server which loads imagery from UNC filesystems for each site. These are added as a virtual directory for each site. These filesystems can contain thousands of folders and it appears that ...
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Valid characters for network share
What characters are allowed and not allowed in Windows network share names?
For example, are spaces or apostrophes allowed? E.g. \\srv1\my share\ and \\srv1\foo'bar\
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What can prevent a Server 2008 machine accessing its OWN UNC shares?
I need to set up a UNC share for my hosted dedicated server to access a share on itself. Unfortunately TFS requires a UNC share.
I am on a Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 64bit dedicated server ...
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domain name UNC path is inaccessible if one domain controller goes down
I have two domain controllers set up something like this:
ServerA.mydomain.local: 10.10.10.2 (Windows Server 2008)
ServerB.mydomain.local: 10.10.10.3 (Windows server 2008 R2)
For login scripts and ...
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UNC Path fails by IP "no network provider accepted the given network path", but works using hostname
I have an unusual problem with a Windows Server 2003 (Standard x86) box.
It appears the machine will not accept connections to its shares (locally and from other domain member servers) by using its ...
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Closing shared folder sessions remotely
Introduction:
I have a script which copies some data from the local server (Server A) to another server (Server B) through an UNC path, the share in the Server B was created for an external hard disk ...
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Specifying Username/Pass as part of a UNC path or map network drives for a windows service
I have a service that I need to be able to write to a network share on another machine using a local account on that machine. To do this I either need to map a network drive that can be seen by the ...
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Windows: disable remote access of local drive, even by domain admin
We have a network of Windows 7 PCs that are managed as part of a domain. What we want is for the domain admin to be unable to view the PC's local drive (C:) unless he is physically at the PC. In ...
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Trying to update windows defender from UNC path continuously fails
I'm trying to update Windows Defender (on Win 10) using definistions stored on a UNC path.
I'm setting the path the the mpam-fe.exe file like this
Set-MpPreference -...
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Why does accessing a folder via UNC path share not work but mapping the same path as a drive does?
I have two domains, PRIMARY and EXTERNAL. EXTERNAL has a one-way outgoing trust to PRIMARY so that PRIMARY's users can authenticate in EXTERNAL. Both domains have Windows Server 2008 DCs running at ...
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Configure IIS FTP with a Virtual Directory to a UNC path
I am running an IIS 6 FTP Server on a Windows Server 2003 computer (lets call it FTPPC), connected to a domain (lets call it DOMAIN).
Allow anonymous connections is off, so a user requires a domain ...
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HYPER-V R2 Can not mount ISO from network location (UNC Path)
So, as the name suggest I'm trying to mount a ISO from a network share using the UNC path to a HYPER-V R2 Cluster.
This is a pure Demo / test case setup with:
2x HYPER-V R2
1X NAS/iSCSI CSV Cluster
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How to setup shared folder as virtual directory in IIS 7.5 (cross-domain)
This is my current understanding of how this should be done:
(TL;DR for the actual problem, please see the bold text.)
Create a folder on you storage server, henceforth known as B.
Create a local ...
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"The specified network name is no longer available." intermittently
(I took a look at a few other similar questions, but they don't seem to be about the same scenario that I'm having)
I have trouble with some systems at a remote office, connected via site to site VPN ...
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UNC Path Issues: One Way Only
So I have an interesting issue where I have a stretched Server2012r2 domain (all servers running Server2012R2 and fully up to date) that spans two data centers; let's call them SiteA and SiteB. The ...
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Error 1606 - MSIs, UNC paths and permissions?
I have a persistent issue with a number of our Windows desktop systems where we see various MSI packages throw up error 1606 (and 1314, in the MSI log), which is a permission issue, when attempting to ...
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Giving Select Windows Domain Users Symbolic Link Privilege
I would like to setup select users on our domain to have the ability to create symbolic links on local NTFS drives and network shares without needing to run as Administrator, as part of an application ...
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Can you disable UNC paths in Windows?
We are trying to lock down a Terminal Server, and want to remove a commercial package's ability to accept UNC file paths, ie. paths in the app can then only be entered using the windows drive letters.
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Windows Server 2012 - Prompt on accessing network resource from server hosting resource
Here's an odd one that I've not been able to crack.
For my home lab setup, I've got two near identical physical servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2.
The goal of my home lab setup is to be able ...
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Does traffic from accessing locally-shared file via UNC path still go through the switch?
if I'm accessing a local file via UNC path, for example //hostname/abc.txt, Will the traffic still go through the switch or it's clever enough to figure out this is a local machine, i.e. will there be ...
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Does UNC work between two Intranet domains?
We have some servers which will move to a new Windows 2008 domain, and some Windows 2000 servers which I would prefer to keep in their current domain for a while (until we have the resources to test ...
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How to copy a file to network resources using UNC paths
I'm trying to do something pretty simple, and conceptually it should work, but it doesn't seem to, and I'm not sure why. I have a file I need to copy to multiple folders on multiple servers. I've been ...
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Local Link Multicast Name Resolution replaces NetBIOS, yet textbook says otherwise
I am studying from Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (our environment still has significant Windows 2008 R2 servers), and one question asks
You are working on a Windows Server ...
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XP server allows all domain users to c$ share
I have an XP Pro computer acting as a Quickbooks server. I've noticed that any user on the domain can access the computer via \\quickbooks\c$. I've looked in the local Administrators group on the ...
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Name resolution for Synology servers sometimes not working
I'm not really sure if this is a Synology issue or a Windows issue.
I'm running all Windows 10 Pro machines on a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain. With somewhat disturbing frequency (let's say 5% of the ...
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Why process running as Local System accessing a UNC share being seen as NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON?
I have a Windows Service running as Local System on SERVER_X which is attempting to access a script on a UNC share hosted on SERVER_Y.
Per the links below, I've granted the computer account of ...
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Windows Cluster IP/Hostname doesn't respond to UNC requests, yet ping and RDP work
I have a Windows Server 2003 cluster of 2 nodes in an active-passive configuration. I can ping both nodes, rdp and access their unc shares.
I also have an alias, which directs to a cluster IP set ...
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UNC access to TFS SharePoint doesn't work
We are using TFS2010 with the SharePoint document portal. We are trying to access the files in SharePoint using UNC paths (e.g. \\tfs2010\sites\DefaultCollection\MyProject) and it just plain doesn't ...
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Apache UNC network path under Windows?
Ok, so I'm running apache on two Windows 7 boxes for use as a test environment. The idea is to keep all projects on a shared network path so I can access it with my desktop or notebook anytime.
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cannot send long path filename (UNC path) to printer
i'm using long path names with UNC (UNI), for example:
\\?\c:\tmp......\file1.prn
but when i try to send the file to a printer on windows command-line, for example with copy/print command, it ...
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Reauthenticate a Remote Connection via PowerShell Script
I have a PowerShell v1 script that connects to a remote server via UNC path. After a reboot, authentication is needed because Windows apparently will not remember so the script cannot connect to the ...
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Windows 10 Pro workstation can no longer access Synology File Share
Note that I have also cross posted this to Synology forums. I'm posting here because I'm not sure if the problem is with Windows or with the Synology server:
Background
Dozens of workstations with ...
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How many concurrent connections can windows 2008 r2 make to a UNC fileshare?
We have an application that makes request to a UNC path for files and serves them via IIS.
How many concurrent connections can a process on Windows 2008 r2 make to a UNC file share?
Are there any ...
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Transparent user migration to a new file server - just changing DNS?
So, file server migration.
I've robocopied everything over and kept folder permissions intact, I have recreated the shared.
My question is I need a transparent way of switching all the users from ...
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Windows "net use" command throwing error, "System error 1909 has occurred" [duplicate]
What is the likely cause of this, if the command is run on Windows Server 2008? It appears that this account is an administrator on this box. I'm running the Windows command line as an administrator ...
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Windows 7 & 2008 does not ignore extra backslash in the middle of UNC path
So I have a GED system that store files following the following scheme:
File_Type\year\month\day\file_name.extension
and store that path in a DB.
You can choose to store only by month in that ...
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Resource usage of mapped drives versus network location shortcuts?
One group within our IT department wants to eliminate all drive mappings from our network and replace them with simple Network Location (UNC) shortcuts. The group claims the drive mappings consume ...
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Accessing local shared folder when network is disconnected
I have an application that usually tried to access files that placed on its own machine.
The way it access the file is UNC form, for example:
\\MyComputerName\MySharedFolder\file.txt
It's all work ...
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UNC Network Shares Fail
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation that is acting as a DC. It has been operational without any problems since late August. All of a sudden, UNC share access experiences an issue where no-...
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