Microsoft Index Server Querying....

I have a win2000 server with MSIndexing Server. Want I want to do is the following:


1 Folder on the server contains files in various subdirs etc.

I want to write a Program in vb.net that keeps track of changes on these files, with history etc. connected to a access database (not relevant for this here).


I want to use the capabilities of MSIS to search for files etc. get data of created by who, searching.
I know from the msdn site that if you have IIS and ASP (e.g.) you can query the MSIS database. But I want to use vb.net on a client machine and query the MSIS database. The conenction string on MSDN was something like: provider=msidxsvr . But on a client there's no such provider....

Does anyone might have an idea for how to get this?