Have you or your clients ever heard of NTFS security, or sharing security? It's extremely good, and there are no known attacks. You simply need to designate exactly which domain accounts have exactly what access. Do you have any idea how much work is needed to do it using TCP/IP? Do you have any experience with Midas and the Socket Server that supports Midas? That would be the easiest choice if you MUST write a client/server piece. However, deployment is hard, and it's less secure than NTFS security on a shared folder. Further, it's more likely to have bugs that need to be fixed because this kind of code involves more complexity. -----Original Message----- From: delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allan Fernandes Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:04 AM To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [delphizip] Re: Gone are the days of Sharing Folders Hi, That is exactly my problem. Our Clients today do not share any drive/folder, because of virus threats over the Internet. Therefore UNC paths are not useable. Any advice? regards Allan NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission i= s intended by the sender for the sole use of the named individual or enti= ty to which it is directed and may contain information that is privileged= or otherwise confidential. Please do not copy it or use it for any purp= oses, or disclose its contents to any other person. To do so could viola= te state and Federal privacy laws. If you have received this electronic = mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without cop= ying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply email = or by telephone, so that the sender's address records can be corrected. = Thank you for your cooperation. ----------- To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail message to: delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word unsubscribe in the subject.