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

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

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$
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10/08/2013  12:53 PM    <DIR>          CastDBManager
10/08/2013  12:01 PM    <DIR>          CastDBManager_agent_Install
10/07/2013  12:15 PM    <DIR>          CASTDBManager_Users
07/14/2009  04:20 AM    <DIR>          PerfLogs
10/09/2013  12:57 PM    <DIR>          Perl
12/31/2014  10:01 AM    <DIR>          Program Files
09/27/2013  09:29 AM    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
09/27/2013  09:29 AM    <DIR>          temp
12/31/2014  09:47 AM    <DIR>          Users
01/02/2015  06:07 PM    <DIR>          Windows
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
              11 Dir(s)  44,639,391,744 bytes free