Does anybody know how to translate a UNC filename to a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) format, or alternatively retrieve a filename in a FQDN format?

If you check Microsoft's Naming Conventions page, you'll see the definition for both... I'm not sure that it is possible to convert between them for all cases.

-PatP

Pat,

Thanks for that. What I am trying to do is to get a FQDN from the Office file dialogue so that I can store the full FQDN of the file selected

Thanks

Brian

I'm confused. UNC names and FQDN names aren't the same thing, and they aren't either sub or super sets of a common thing. Your question makes as much sense to me as "How do I turn a lemon into a brick?" because of the disconnect.

I must be missing something. Can you give me an example?

-PatP

Pat,

I have a facility that allows users to store links to documents (e.g. Word Excel, etc). To ensure that these links can be used by users with different logical drive mappings I store the UNC path of the document. We are now upsizing the application to an enterprise application running on multiple domains across a WAN. I have been requested to use FQDNs rather than UNCs to ensure that the document links are unambiguous.

I take your point that FQDNs and UNCs are the same thing, what I was trying to get was a FQDN based format for a file selected from the Office open file dialogue (I currently retrieve the UNC from the result of this). I see no easy way of doing what I want so I have implemented my own code that resolves the server part of the UNC into a FQDN format using centralised lookup tables. It introduces a bit of ongoing lookup table maintenance overhead, but I can’t see any easier way of doing it

Thanks for your help

Brian

I think that is as good as you can get. There might be an API call exposed somewhere on a federated domain controller, but I have no clue what it might be or how to use it.

Sorry I couldn't be more help!

-PatP