title: Sql Server Backup to UNC
body: <p>I've create a maintenance plan on my SQL Server 2005 server. The backup should be written to another server. I'm using a UNC path for this. The user running the SQL Agent jobs has full access to the other server. It's admin on both servers.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that this statement fails ( has the correct server name ofcourse):</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir
    N'\\servername\c$\SqlServerBackup\Test'</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The error I get is: 
  Msg 22048, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
  xp_create_subdir() returned error 123, 'The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.'</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know what could be the problem?</p>