Have you used this code and done any sort of stress testing with multiple machines using it? It looks like it's just forcing open a netowrk connection and it makes me worry about the impact it would have on other users who are trying to access the shared drive who aren't accessing the backend DBs.

Also, is it going to add any extra chaching, and if it does would it be client side or server side? If it's server side you could run out of memory if the drive's as overworked as some are at my company.

It's interesting code that I would like to try out, but I need more info before I even think of testing it on my company's shared drives.