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"Leo" <leo.broska@NOSPAM.isys.com.au> writes:

> > cmd.exe does not support UNC paths as the current working directory.
> > It supports them everywhere else AFAIK.
> 
> so how can i make it work in emacs that it goes to the right directory?

Emacs goes to the right directory. You can test that with C-x C-d and
giving a UNC path.  But CMD.EXE cannot use a UNC path as the current
working directory, that is a limitation of CMD.EXE, not of Emacs.

It might help if you explain exactly what is failing. Your previous
message only mentioned that you get a message, it did not say that
anything actually failed to work.