1. In a computer network having two or more computing devices in communication, including a host computing device and a remote computing device, a method for generating a consistent user name-space, the method comprising: mapping items stored on the remote computing device to the file system of the host computing device; determining if each mapped item is available for transmission from the remote computing device to the host computing device; if a mapped item is not available for transmission, denoting the unavailable status of the mapped item in the user name-space of the host computing device; and alternatively, if a mapped item is available for transmission, denoting the available status of the mapped item in the user name-space of the host computing device.