Controlled Disk Serving

[Donald]

Perhaps someone else is trying to do the same thing as I. Currently, I have
a VMS site for storing user data files in a automated and structured
manner -- no direct access. The user runs my VB application, which grabs
the desired files, validates them and then stores them. We are moving off
the VMS system and onto a Window Server 2003 terabyte server. I could setup
an FTP service to do the same process as I'm doing on VMS, however it seems
that a disk service might be a better solution (ie more control). Yet, I
don't want the user to have direct access to the disk service. Again, I'd
like to access the service via a VB application which connects to the disk
service transparently. Any thoughts on this topic?

 

[Microsoft News]

I hate to answer my own queries, however after further research it appears
that the Windows Management Interface (WMI) under the system.management
namespace holds many of the answers. Namely, the connectionoptions,
managementscope and managementobject classes facilitate the mapping of
remote drives. Here is a good article on the matter:

http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive334.html

Don