Can Additional Document Directories use UNC Paths?

For Sun One WS 6.0 SP 7 on Windows 2000
Can additional document directories use UNC paths, or does the directory containing the HTML documents have to be on the server running the Web Server? The documentation
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-5682-10/esapui21.htm#80857
says:
"Map To Directory. Specifies the absolute path of the directory you want the URL prefix to map to, for example,
C:/iplanet/marketing/pubdocs/index.html"
But could you instead use:
\\servername\path\somedocs\
Anyone ever tried this? And would you have to swap the direction of the slashes?
//servername/path/somedocs/
Thanks!
--John

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