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Universal Naming Convention

You may want to consider using the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) for your network installations. This will prevent problems with mapped drive mismatches.

For example:

  • User 1 may have F: mapped to \\Server1\Drive1\DataFlex
  • User 2 may have G: mapped to \\Server1\Drive1\DataFlex

In this scenario, without using UNC, you would have to:

  • Customize each user's Registry entries, or
  • Synchronize all users' drive mappings

Universal naming convention does not use mapped drives, but instead addresses networked folders and files using this method:

\\ServerName\ShareName\Path\FileName

Where:

  • ServerName is the name of the server (PC) where the files are located
  • ShareName is the shared folder name where the files are located
  • Path is the additional path to the files (if applicable) below the shared folder
  • FileName is the name of the file (if applicable) to access

See Also

Deployment Reference