Open Windows Explorer in a file share on the local machine. Drag a file from there and drop it onto Emacs. The error "Can not read file:///server/share/file-name" is signalled. dnd-get-local-file-uri attempts to convert the remote file name to a local file name by removing the server name. That is not valid for UNC file names. In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2019-02-12 built on X Repository revision: d41f9123ecae45654f006d736996343275d774bd Repository branch: buster Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 System Description: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Service Pack 1 (v6.1.1130.7601.24355) Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. dnd-open-local-file: Can not read file:///server/share/file-name Configured using: 'configure --config-cache --with-modules --without-pop --without-dbus --without-gconf --without-gsettings CFLAGS=-O3' Configured features: SOUND NOTIFY W32NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES THREADS PDUMPER GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: ENG locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils browse-url url-util url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib url-vars elec-pair mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads w32notify w32 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 55778 9941) (symbols 48 6721 1) (strings 32 19194 1886) (string-bytes 1 589026) (vectors 16 10297) (vector-slots 8 130876 12274) (floats 8 20 150) (intervals 56 221 18) (buffers 992 11))