Did you know that you can use FSO to open or create a text file on a remote computer? The computer must be part of your network, and shared out correctly. If these conditions are met, though, you can use FSO in a fashion similar to:

Const ForReading = 1 Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set MyFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("\\<machinename>\myfile.txt", ForReading)

Before you rush out and try this, first realize that this will probably generate an error.

With IIS 4.0, security issues make it a little difficult to work with files on remote computers using FSO. In fact, you have to jump through several hoops to get this working. Thankfully, Microsoft has written a TechNet article on this, which explains what security settings you'll need to fiddle with...