You asked asimilar question on 31 May - and other people too. Must be a homework assignment or something? What you are attempting to do is essentially break the security model by impersonating another user. Get the owner of the server to share a disk resource to allow you to transfer the file or create a user on that server specifically for your use. Either way, you need sufficient rights to copy the file. ...Steve 1. quod erat demonstrandum 2. "Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you've fed him for life." I read that somewhere once :-) -- modified at 20:18 Thursday 1st June, 2006