I am a beginner Visual Basic programmer. I know how to open a file, save it to a variable, change the data in the variable, and then write that variable back to a file using the System.IO.Directory class. But I have large amounts of data on 17 computers all running Windows XP and all of which are connected to a network. I would like to write a VB program on one computer that will be able to read, write, copy, and move files to and from any of the other computers on the network. Are there VB functions for this and if so how do I use them?