Restoring to a network paths?

I'm getting the error "The file \\xxx... is on a network path that is not supported for database files. File xx cannot be restored to \\xx..... Use WITH MOVE to identify a valid location for the file. Below is my code for the restore. I've even shared the folder on the network but still no success.

Try
Dim restoreToServer As New Server("xxxx")
Dim rest As New Restore
rest.Devices.AddDevice("\\xx\x$\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\myData\myData.BAK", DeviceType.File)

rest.Action = RestoreActionType.Database
rest.Database = "myDatabase"
rest.NoRecovery = False
rest.ReplaceDatabase = True

rest.RelocateFiles.Add(New RelocateFile("myData", "\\xx\data\myData.mdf"))
rest.RelocateFiles.Add(New RelocateFile("myData_log", "\\xx\logs\myData.ldf"))

rest.SqlRestore(restoreToServer)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.InnerException.ToString)

End Try

Can you run a database from a network path?

Why would you want to do it?
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We are running the vb app on a desktop. To connect to the production db we issue smo commands. Those commands will backup the production database and then we need to do a restore on another database. To connect to any of the two mentioned we connect using \\host-machine\drive$ but this does not work.

|||That what is wrote for placing data files on a network shares some days ago:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=477137&SiteID=1

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de