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UNC

UNC
Universal Naming Convention (or Uniform Naming Convention). UNC is used for specifying the location of a resource on a network. It uses the following format:

\\server\share\path-name

where :-

server The name of the server that provides the resource.
share The name of the share on that server.
path-name The path and resource name

For example:

\\devserv\projects\documents\report.doc