by the way - accessing the remote share using the "pure" remote command strategies (like WMI) does not work - we went down that road before (not sure where the thread is) ...

One of the guys we were working with at the time, went to MS with the issue. They came back saying that Windows does not support "passthrough authentication" - which means, a network resource will not trust the credentials from a source that is (really) remoted in from somewhere else. Maybe a bad description but I hope you get my meaning.