Windows 7 - no network - What do I need to locally fake UNC path for development/testing?
This is a late answer, but for future reference:
Your suggestion of multiple NetBIOS names (OptionalNames) has worked for me to allow a Windows machine to accept UNC paths under other computer names.
For completess, you can combine this with adding the same alias's to the hosts file with the localhost ip 127.0.0.1 so IP traffic will always be redirected.
Maybe use the UNC version of localhost?
\\localhost\c$\tmpWill map to your local c:\tmp folder.