LocalHost in share path?

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Published on 2009-11-05T23:21:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 8:11 UTC
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I am setting up in a test environment and need to save some paths in a database but dont want to edit the paths when we go to production. My idea being that I could create a share on both servers and use a generic name like LocalHost instead of TestServer for the paths.

Example:
\\LocalHost\Docs

I have used a mapped drive temporarily but was curious if there is another magic word like localhost that works with share paths?

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