MailMerge.OpenDataSource does not work with network share?

Question

Hello everyone,

i do some word mailmerging.. MailMerge.OpenDataSource( _ Name:=m_strDsName, _

setting m_strDsName... if i set a local excel document for datasource: m_strDsName = 'c://documents/somefolder/someexcelfile.xls'

everything works just fine

if i set the excel document for datasource from network share the code throws an error m_strDsName = '//networkshare/somefolder/someexcelfile.xls'

what can be the problem here? The excel files are the same and do exist in the locations.

thanks, Alex