19.27. UNC Shares

There are two main ways that your ASP.NET application might use UNC shares:

• Accessing files on UNC shares

  For example, your application must access a remote file such as \\remoteserver\share\somefile.dat.

• Hosting applications on UNC shares

  Your application’s IIS virtual directory is mapped to a remote share, for example, \\remoteserver\appname. In this scenario, HTTP requests are processed by your Web server, but the application’s pages, resources, and private assemblies are located on the remote share.