diff --git a/FileSystem/PathCombine.cs b/FileSystem/PathCombine.cs
index 722ff4e..951a214 100644
--- a/FileSystem/PathCombine.cs
+++ b/FileSystem/PathCombine.cs
@@ -24,9 +24,18 @@ public static string UniversalCombine(string[] paths, HashSet<char> invalidChars
             }
 
             List<string> nicePaths = new List<string>();
+            bool startsWithShare = false;
+
             foreach (var path in paths)
             {
-                var splitPath = path.Split(new[] { WindowsSeparator, LinuxSeparator }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
+                string cleanPath = path;
+                if(path.StartsWith(WindowsSeparator+ WindowsSeparator))
+                {
+                    cleanPath = path.TrimStart('\\');
+                    startsWithShare = true;
+                }
+
+                var splitPath = cleanPath.Split(new[] { WindowsSeparator, LinuxSeparator }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                 nicePaths.AddRange(splitPath.Where(p => !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(p)));
             }
 
@@ -36,7 +45,7 @@ public static string UniversalCombine(string[] paths, HashSet<char> invalidChars
             {
                 separator = LinuxSeparator;
             }
-            else if (nicePaths[0].EndsWith(":"))
+            else if (nicePaths[0].EndsWith(":") || startsWithShare)
             {
                 separator = WindowsSeparator;
             }
@@ -47,6 +56,11 @@ public static string UniversalCombine(string[] paths, HashSet<char> invalidChars
 
             var result = String.Join(separator, nicePaths);
 
+            if (startsWithShare)
+            {
+                result = "\\\\" + result;
+            }
+
             if (separator == LinuxSeparator && paths[0].StartsWith(LinuxSeparator))
             {
                 // Linux paths need to start with a / only if we already had a /.
diff --git a/FileSystemTests/PathCombineTests.cs b/FileSystemTests/PathCombineTests.cs
index 14b3cd6..4cbc641 100644
--- a/FileSystemTests/PathCombineTests.cs
+++ b/FileSystemTests/PathCombineTests.cs
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ public class PathCombineTests
         [DataRow(new[] { "/github/", "FolderC/FolderD", "File.xml" }, "/github/FolderC/FolderD/File.xml")]
         [DataRow(new[] { "/github", "FolderC/FolderD" }, "/github/FolderC/FolderD")]
         [DataRow(new[] { "/github\\what?", "FolderC/FolderD" }, "/github/what?/FolderC/FolderD")]
+        [DataRow(new[] { "\\\\127.0.0.1\\c$", "skyline dataminer\\test.txt" }, "\\\\127.0.0.1\\c$\\skyline dataminer\\test.txt")]
         public void UniversalCombineTests(string[] paths, string expectedResult)
         {
             var result = PathCombine.UniversalCombine(paths, _invalidCharacters);