Netname

"Netname" in a Sentence (2 examples)

A UNC (universal naming convention) name consists of a server name and a netname, which together identify a resource in the domain.

If a sharepoint is accessed by using the UNC \\server1\WordFiles, for example, the netname is WordFiles.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.