In a piece of Visual Basic code my programme needs to read from a
textfile. The programme points to the pad of the textfile like this:

pad$ = Application.DefaultFilePath

In a new situation I want the location to be in a shared folder on
another pc in the network. How do I solve this? I get errors when
using:

pad$ = \\location\folder

and

pad$ = \\ip-adres\folder

I don't want to change the default file path.

thanks.

Bernd