Hi Mat,

I think the push is slower because there is would probably be distributed transactions involved.

In most cases when you select data from a remote server and insert it...

If you think you will be doing a fair amount of installs of software via a network share then you could always mount a disk on the target machine using...

Hi Bob,

If you are using Windows 2003 you can use WMI to get the mountpoint information that you need. Check out the Win32_Volume Class: 

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394515.aspx

Also you can query any 2003...

Are you using Sql Server 2005? If so then check this out:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922670&SD=tech

Cheers,

John