Operating systems Information - How to see free space of a machine remotely

Purpose

This page provide information about how to see free space of a machine remotely.

Applicable in CAST Version

Applicable RDBMS

Details

There can be many ways to see. Once way can be to run DIR command.

DIR command usually list the files and folder of particular drive and also provide FREE SPACE at the end.
So to see the Free space of remote machine is to run the DIR command remotely.

Steps:

1. Run Net Use command on command prompt to provide the credentials to the network share

Net Use \XX.XX.XX.XX\c$ /user:domain\username “password without quotes”

             This will not map the share to a drive letter it will just provide the login details.

       2.  then run DIR command

DIR \ XX.XX.XX.XX \c$

For example :

C:\Documents and Settings\AKM>dir \XYZ\c$

 Volume in drive \XYZ\c$ has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 8C16-CDDD

 Directory of \XYZ\c$

10/08/2013  12:53 PM