Find UNC path of a network drive? Find UNC path of a network drive? windows windows

Find UNC path of a network drive?


In Windows, if you have mapped network drives and you don't know the UNC path for them, you can start a command prompt (Start → Run → cmd.exe) and use the net use command to list your mapped drives and their UNC paths:

C:\>net useNew connections will be remembered.Status       Local     Remote                    Network-------------------------------------------------------------------------------OK           Q:        \\server1\foo             Microsoft Windows NetworkOK           X:        \\server2\bar             Microsoft Windows NetworkThe command completed successfully.

Note that this shows the list of mapped and connected network file shares for the user context the command is run under. If you run cmd.exe under your own user account, the results shown are the network file shares for yourself. If you run cmd.exe under another user account, such as the local Administrator, you will instead see the network file shares for that user.


If you have Microsoft Office:

  1. RIGHT-drag the drive, folder or file from Windows Explorer into the body of a Word document or Outlook email
  2. Select 'Create Hyperlink Here'

The inserted text will be the full UNC of the dragged item.


This question has been answered already, but since there is a more convenient way to get the UNC path and some more I recommend using Path Copy, which is free and you can practically get any path you want with one click:

https://pathcopycopy.github.io/

Here is a screenshot demonstrating how it works. The latest version has more options and definitely UNC Path too:

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