Even without an actual connection to a remote system, you can start experimenting
with the Remote System Explorer UI on the local host, which is shown by default
under the
Local node:
- Browse the Filesystem, choose contextmenu > show in Table, and
observe the Properties view.
- Create a new Filter to show
specific resources in the file system only.
- Launch an RSE Shell
(Shells node > Launch)
- In the Shell, perform commands such as ls, dir, ps, gcc, make and see
the output interpreted
- Use Ctrl+Space Content Assist on the shell command entry field
For operations on an actual remote system, you can either
- use the "SSH Only" system type (New > Other > Remote System Explorer > Connection), or
- start a dstore server daemon
on the remote system and use any of the other connection types.
RSE is a framework that supports plugging in many different communication protocols.
By default, the dstore, FTP and ssh protocol plug-ins are provided, with dstore being
the richest in features.
Dstore requires a server to run on the remote system. There are several methods to
get a server launched for a particular user, the most easy one to set up is the
daemon method.