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How do I create a UNC to an IPv6 address?

Windows UNC notation permits you to use a raw IPv4 address in dotted notation as a server name: For example, will show you the shared resources on the computer whose IP address is 127.0.0.1. But what about IPv6 addresses? IPv6 notation contains colons, which tend to mess up file name parsing since a colon is not a valid character in a path ...