Access windows server information(System.IO) from a local machine

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Hi,

I am trying to make a console application in which I am trying to get the drive information from the local machine using System.IO. Now I want to get the same information for a server from my local machine, how do I do that? How do I connect to it? and After Connection how do I access its System.IO? I know one thing that the servers can be accessed through UNC path(\\servername\name\dir\) but If I want to access the server disk spaces(using System.IO) and error logs how do I do that?
I already have username and passwords for it.
Any help on this is most welcome.
Thanks,
Gb1114

Posted 25-Jun-13 9:02am

GB_1114

Updated 25-Jun-13 9:35am

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Mahesh Bailwal 26-Jun-13 2:15am

Please share code you have used for local machine.

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Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2013-06-25T20:15:00

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The item you need is called Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), not System.IO. See e.g. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Using-WMI-with-C-4e5a9ee1[^]

Posted 25-Jun-13 20:15pm

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GB_1114 26-Jun-13 15:03pm

HI Bernhard, thanks lot for this, I'll implement this and see if it works, on the msdn website it says that "There are no special requirements to build this sample. It uses .NET 4.0"..I have 4.5, I hope it works on that too?