Overview

Some GFI products require the ability to communicate with a computer by using it's Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name.

A computer's UNC name is assigned to the computer when it is set up.

This article guides you on how to check a UNC name and ping it on the server.

Process

To determine the UNC name of a computer, do the following:

1. Go to Start > Run and type cmd to open the command prompt.
2. In the command prompt, type: hostname

   In this example, the computer name is DC0:

To confirm that this name can be used to properly communicate with the computer:

1. Open a command prompt on the server hosting the desired GFI product.
2. Ping the name as you would an IP address: