uniform naming convention (Windows 2000) (UNC)
Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) or Universal Naming Convention (UNC) is a naming convention used to identify resources on a computer or network.
The UNC convention forms the path in a computer, network or file system over which the resources are reached. A prerequisite for the use of the resources is their prior sharing so that users or other computer systems can access them. The UNC path has a unified naming convention characterized by backslashes and components and has the following scheme: \> server>\