find free hard disk space remote windows host

[Daniel]

Hello,

I'm trying to determine the amount of free hard disk space on a remote
windows host. Seems like this should be simple, but it's giving me
grief. Here's what I've tried:
(16895, 0L, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0L, 1251731920, 1251731289, 1249399952)

For some reason it doesn't show the details about space on the remote
path.

Next I tried this:

subprocess.call('dir //remotehost/share/ | find "bytes free"',
shell=True)

But this only returns the status, not the output, which is what I
need.

How can I determine the amount of free hard drive space on a remote
windows host using python?

Thanks

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

subprocess.call('dir //remotehost/share/ | find "bytes free"',
shell=True)

But this only returns the status, not the output, which is what I
need.

As I'd expect... you'd need to read the stdout from the process...

How can I determine the amount of free hard drive space on a remote
windows host using python?

Uhm... maybe...

win32file.GetFreeDiskSpace()

 

[Tim Golden]

Hello,

I'm trying to determine the amount of free hard disk space on a remote
windows host. Seems like this should be simple, but it's giving me
grief. Here's what I've tried:

(16895, 0L, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0L, 1251731920, 1251731289, 1249399952)

Assuming you have the necessary security levels,
WMI's quite good at this kind of thing. See this
example:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_cookbook.html#percentage_free

and just add "remotehost" as the first parameter to the
wmi.WMI () call. (And I recommend find_classes=False) for
speed.

TJG