As Ed Rauhl said in one of the threads here, constant file checking over network may cause some effects of hanging up or large network traffic for some networks and network configurations. With remote COM object it never happens because this way do not use file system to transfer information, I suppose.

>I may be overlooking something, but I see no advantage to your new approach over the old approach. They both still rely on the workstation being connected to the server. And the first is easier to implement and requires less coding, fewer files to work with, etc.