Posted by nick on 02/25/07 23:17

Can someone please tell me what is meant by a file share?

I'm doing a little reading on MS Sql Server and they talk about how
you can connect to the sql server through a named pipe.
I'm guessing that a file share means a specific service running on a
server. Is this correct?
The book says the following:
When you connect to a file share you use a Universal Naming Convention
path to a file server: \\FILESERVER\Sharename.

To connect to a named pipe, you connect to a share of the form:
\\COMPUTER\pipe\sql\query

Thanks Hope you can clear this up for me.

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