Accessing Hard drive information across the network

Hello,
Im trying to create a small app to monitor disk space usage of servers on our network. Im using the code found on Ray Camdens site.
<cfset fileOb = createObject("java", "java.io.File").init("C:/")>
<cfoutput>
freespace=#fileOb.getFreeSpace()#<br>
usablespace=#fileOb.getUsableSpace()#<br>
totalspace=#fileOb.getTotalSpace()#<br>
</cfoutput>
This works fine when specifying local physical drives but it doesnt work for mapped network drives or if I put the path to another server in the init(" ") part.
Has anyone got this working by pointing it at a mapped driver on the local server or by pointing directly to the server accross the network?
Thanks for any help.

Yup, it was to do with permission, cant beleive I didnt think of that. In this regard this isnt a security issue, the servers in question are private servers.
Thanks for you helpful answer

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