Remotely accessing a file

[Jebu]

Hi all,

I would like to learn how to read/write to a file residing on another computer (e.g the server) but I've been looking around the net and could not find anything helpful.
Do any of you know of a specific link/tutorial to do this?
Any help would be appreciated

Thank you!

You can simply:

Open "\\hostname\drive\file.txt" For Output As #1
    'What you want to do
Close #1

[Jebu]

Tried that... couldn't get it to work, I think its because you are not actually connected to the server or the particular computer yet.
I'm thinking more on the lines of using API or Winsock to do this but I obviously have no idea how to do it.

[Gaffer]

I'm working on a similar project at the moment. I use the Inet control, of which there is a good tutorial on this site (http://www.vbsquare.com/articles/inet1/) - It is focussed toward web based stuff, but assuming you have the IP address or server name, it will work for that.

Another method, less flexible, is also mentioned on this site is the API URLDownloadtoFile (http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip501.html) - it's great if you need to download a file, but it STILL can't find the upload method!

[Jebu]

Thank you Gaffer, I will try it out.