in reply to remote server directory read

ssh remote_machine ls -alp
(if you have passwordless ssh access to remote_machine, which is probably a bad idea)

mount remote_machine:/remote_dir /mnt ; ls -alp /mnt
(if remote_machine exports /remote_dir with NFS, and you're root locally)

ls -alp /net/remote_machine/remote_dir
(if remote_machine exports the dir, and local machine has automount set up with a hosts map)