Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/25/07 23:25

nick (cupofjava1961@aol.com) writes:
> Can someone please tell me what is meant by a file share?

A file share is a directory to which access have been opened to users
on other machines. You can set up a file share on your machine, by right-
clicking a directory in Explorer and select Sharing and Security. (In
Windows XP.)

> 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.

Yes, this the syntax to refer to a disk on a different computer, although
it is also possible to map a drive letter to a remote disk.

All this has very little to do with SQL Server, but is common knowledge
about Windows.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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