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Your Scripts Reach the File Share by IP Address and Windows Wants a Name

By Serguey Asael Shinder · DEV Community · 10/30/2026

The nightly export copies a file to a share. Backslash backslash, ten dot twenty dot zero dot fifteen, backslash exports. Someone wrote it years ago, because the DNS name was not working that week. It has worked ever since. And every night, without telling you, it signs in with a protocol Microsoft…

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