Mirroring Windows Folder structures on iPhone

Dear all,
We are creating an application that will mirror a file storeon our windows network. We run a PHP scheduled tasks that takes the filestructure (with the filename, path, folders) from UNC path and stores it in the sqlite database and can be seen by using a table view. The files can sometimeshave multiple sub folders which makes thing a bit more tricky. My first process was to include this database in the project and it was working great. The issue I have now is that I have now set this process up I want it to be updated remotely through the internet. As far as I can see from research the database’s included in the project are read only and are unable to be updated.
I have got a bit stuck and the internet doesn’t seem to give me any definitive answers. I need someone to point me in the right direction to start looking:
We have IIS web services, does xcode have the ability to connect to a remote databaseHow will I pull the data, I have no where to store and the array will be too big to run on the fly
Using soap to pull entries? Can this be used for display folder structures
I am after just a direction in which to head so I know what best to research to proceed further. I have also signed up to the iOS developer program but am awaiting confirmation.
Kind regards,
Sonal

You can communicate with any type of web service (or even a custom tcp/ip protocol) from your iphone application. Regarding updating the bundled database, that is not an issue either. You will just need to copy the bundled database file to a writable directory (~/Documents for instance) when the application is run the first time. After that you can update the database at will.

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