Re: Interactive SSH client for RDi?

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SWEEEEEEET!  I thought for sure there was such a thing, but I just 
couldn't find it.  Now I have a small window on my workbench with a 5250 
session and an SSH session, and I just flip tabs between them.  Very nice.


On 1/6/2021 8:58 AM, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
> Personally, I don't like the QSHELL connection. Take a look at the terminal view. Make sure you use the right one though. Windows -> Show View. There may be a Terminals entry on that screen, but that is not what we want. Windows -> Show View -> Other -> Terminal. Then set up your connection.
>
> On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 08:08 -0600, Joe Pluta wrote:
>
> Hello everyone! I was just trying to do something I thought would be
>
> simple.  As part of my foray into MKDocs (which rocks big time, by the
>
> way), I have been running KiTTY as an SSH client and everything works
>
> fine.  I use RDi to edit my MKDocs source (just a bunch of text files in
>
> the IFS) and then I use KiTTY to run the MKDocs build command and then I
>
> run a green screen CPY command to move the objects from the MKDocs
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> target to my Apache server instance.  All is well, but I wanted to try
>
> to stay inside of RDi for everything.  For the 5250 session, that was
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> easy; I right click on the connection and take the Host Connection
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> Emulator option.  Boom, up comes a 5250 session. But then I try to do
>
> the same thing for Launch Shell, I get an error:
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>
> Connection to QShell server timed out.
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> Check firewall and open ports 2850, 2851 and 2852.
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>
> Since I'm on a VPN, I don't know why I'd have ports disabled, so I tried
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> Verify Connection, and it told me the callback to RSE daemon failed,
>
> because the callback both to my IP address on port 4301 and to my fully
>
> qualified PC name both failed.  So before I go back to my operations
>
> folks, I just wondered if someone could tell me what these errors might
>
> mean.  I think it's saying that the IBM i can't see my PC, but is that
>
> necessary to start an SSH session?  As noted, KiTTY works.
>
>
> And also, in the interests of trying to find another solution to the
>
> issue, does anyone know of a different SSH client plugin that works in
>
> RDi?  The last one I tried (Remote System Explorer) didn't like my RDi
>
> configuration but happily told me it would uninstall the Software
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> Development Platform if I so desired. That would be less than optimal,
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> so I'm on the lookout for another SSH client.
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>
> At the end of the day, using KiTTY is fine.  I just was looking for a
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> way to do everything from RDi.
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>
>
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