Move files on network to different locations via iPhone app

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I have files and directories setup on a Windows network share (\foo). I want to be able to move the files into different directories (eg. \foo\bar\baz.txt --> \foo\quux\baz.txt) via an iPhone app.

However, having failed to find a solution I think it might be a better idea to write a separate program that runs on the server that handles moving the files and have the iPhone app as a client that issues instructions to the server about what files to move.

Any suggestions on this would be much appreciated.

Edit: Since someone has voted to close this for not being clear... the question is: I want to move files on a network share from one directory to the other.

How do I do this using Objective-C/Cocoa Touch/iPhone SDK?

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I would prefer to write it all as one app, but from what I've found moving the files from app the itself is somewhere between incredibly difficult to impossible. - carbin

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To access the file shares directly, you would have to implement an SMB client. I suppose you could pilfer code from Samba's smbclient and see if you can get it building on the iPhone.

A big advantage to using a web service is that you can set it up for access outside your LAN. This is much harder with SMB unless you already have a VPN set up.

An in-between possibility that just occurred to me is to expose the shares via WebDAV on IIS. In fact, this is probably much easier that writing your own service.