Accessing network resources within Apache module?

I wrote an Apache module (.so) which needs to copy files across my local
network to another server, and I am finding that this does not work. I
don't know if it is a limitation of Apache running as a windows service, or
a limitation of Apache win32 itself, or a limitation of windows services in
general (unable to access resources away from the host server itself).
Anybody have experience with this??

I can write an EXE with the same functionality that has no problem
accessing/creating files/directories across the network. So I believe my
network/directory sharing rights are okay.

This has nothing to do with serving the files to public requests. This is
entirely an issue of accessing files within the Apache .so module itself.

I have tried executing Apache as a service from an administrator user
account, instead of default system. Still does not work.

I am going to try writing a custom DLL which will do what I want if called
from a custom EXE, and then try to call this DLL from my Apache .so, and see
if this works.

I am running Apache 1.3.+ as a service on Win2K.

Any other possible ideas to try, or pointers to other sites/lists/newsgroups
with info would be appreciated.