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It's now possible to connect up your local hard drives to be accessible to the remote server. In fact, it doesn't even need to be your local harddrive, just any drive you have mapped with NetBios. Make FTP a thing of the past by securely and quickly transferring files between your remote server and your local machine. To enable this, edit your RDS client connection, click on the "Local Resources" tab, and then check "Disk Drives" under the local devices group.

Now that it's setup, connect to the remote computer. After logging into your remote server, open a command prompt and type in:

c:>net use * \\tsclient\c
Drive Z: is now connected to \\tsclient\c.

The command completed successfully.
c:>

You can now copy files over any way you want. Try an XCOPY over terminal services, you'll never use FTP again.

c:>xcopy z:\web c:\web /s /y /r /d /l

The XCOPY option /L means show me what would happen, but don't actually copy any files. The /D is the money option. It will only copy newer files, so only the files that you've changed between the two machines.