Is Eclipse SSH Remote System Explorer broken on Windows?

Question

I have the following setup on Windows 7 Ultimate x64:

• Eclipse Indigo 2.7.2 (Build: M20120208-0800)
• Remote System Explorer 3.3.2 (see screenshot)
• (Oracle/Sun) Java 1.6 Update 31 (x86)

Despite all my best efforts I am unable to connect to a remote system (a Centos 5.6 server on my local LAN) using a Remote System Explorer SSH connection - I've tried both password authentication and using my SSH private key.

Here is a screenshot of both the Eclipse error dialogue and what is logged in my /var/log/secure log file:

/var/log/secure:

Apr  1 12:00:21 nagios sshd[6176]: Received disconnect from 172.16.3.88: 3: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Auth fail

When I connect for the first time I do get prompted to verify the authenticity of the remote host and the RSA key fingerprint. But that's as far as things go.

Performing the same operation with the same credentials on my Fedora Core 16 box (also running the same version of Eclipse and Java) to the same server (and other servers) is successful.

This leads me to believe that RSE SSH support on Windows is either broken or there's some piece of the SSH-on-Windows puzzle I'm missing. Is this the case?

Answer 1

It works on Windows 7 64bit - i am using it. Maybe there is a problem with 3.3.2? I have check my version and i am using 3.3.1

You should upgrade your eclipse. Indigo is deprecated.