Universal Naming Convention (UNC), originally used in Unix, is a standard to identify a share in a computer network. Its format (see Figure 4.18) uses double backslashes to precede the name of the server, for example, \\servername\folder:
Understanding Universal Naming Convention (UNC)
FIgure 4.18. A UNC path in Windows Server 2016
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