UNC

[Jack Turner]

I'm not sure if this is a question, or what.

UNC stands for Universal Naming Convention or Uniform
Naming Convention, and is a PC format for specifying the
location of resources on a local-area network (LAN).

It does not make any sense to try to use the term UNC
outside a networked environment. What are you trying to
do?

Thanks, Jack

-----Original Message-----
Under 2000 I could use unc name on a non-networked

machine. XP does not allow this unless the network is
alive.

 

[ggs]

It is very simple. We have a local workgroup with 2 or 3
computers connected together. One workstation is being
used as a kind of application server. The applications are
using ini files. Theini files are referenceing files by
their unc names. So if you unplug the network cable
(pertending like the network is down) The server machine
can't run the application because it is trying to
reference itself with unc names. The real interesting part
is that XP will use 127.0.0.1 as its ip address if the
network cable is unplugged and if you plug the cable back
in it will use the ip address assigned.