Comments on: How To: Browse remote files in Eclipse IDE

By: Julio

Julio — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:47:22 +0000

There seems to be an issue with remote linked folders if there are multiple connections to the same box with different accounts. Apparently Eclipse doesn’t associate a specific connection(i.e. user account) to the remote linked folder, instead it uses one of the connections randomly, which may be a problem if you want to edit files with one particular account or the other account doesn’t have write permission. Everything else looks awesome.

By: Arturs

Arturs — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:02:09 +0000

Here’s how you can add remote folder to the existing project.
Before you follow the steps below, make sure that you are connected to an Remote system or Remote site explorer (as described in the blog post above).

So, without further ado – here’s how you add remote directories to your project:
1) File -> New -> Folder
2) Select your project in the window that appears
3) Press “Advanced”
4) Check “Link to folder in the file system”
5) Choose file system – RSE
6) “Browse…” -> Connection = your ssh server
7) Browser for the folder in the view below
Press “OK”
9) Press “Finish”
10)Vòila, you are there!

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By: Tamlyn

Tamlyn — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:30:45 +0000

Thanks for this description. I wasted over an hour trying to work out how the hell to browse stuff using RSE. Showing the local file system tree in the sidebar seems like such a basic feature, I can’t believe Eclipse makes it this complicated!

Anyway, thanks.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:50:54 +0000

Anybody know how to add a remote file (or folder) as a resource to an existing project?

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By: Venu

Venu — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:53:08 +0000

I just checked on how it behaves at my workplace. I logged in to one of our dev boxes using my credentials, created a file and checked the file permissions. Both the user and group have "rw" access.

If you login via a terminal and create a file, with what permissions is the file created ? I guess the behavior should be same via eclipse RSE also unless you are using different credentials while logging in from RSE.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:30:00 +0000

Hi Venu!

In general I’m noticing Europa is very fast . One more question, have you figured out a way to have RSE create/edit files with a set of predefined permissions? Otherwise, my files are not editable by other users in my group.

It’s create files with ivan:ivan, when it should be creating, ivan:devgroup

By: Venu

Venu — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:02:15 +0000

Ivan,Nice to know that the post was of some use

Meanwhile I was testing Eclipse 3.3 with the new version of RSE. It looks like its much faster than the old version. Not sure if I should credit Europa or RSE.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:55:14 +0000

ahh nevermind, figured it out

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:54:22 +0000

I didn’t see a way to download files… Am I missing something? Thanks for the great blog though, very awesome and undernoticed plugin.