Remote System Explorer (SSH, Telnet, FTP and DStore protocols)

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Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), Kepler (4.3), Juno (4.2, 3.8), Previous to Juno (<=4.1), Neon (4.6), Oxygen (4.7), Photon (4.8), 2018-09 (4.9)

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Solution Description

Remote System Explorer is result of Eclipse Target Management team work. It support SSH, Telnet, FTP and DStore protocols.

The purpose of the entry is to let install it with one drag-and-drop by using Install button.

Example of such usage is Nodeclipse Plugins List

Categories: Tools

Tags: remote, explorer, system, SSH, ftp, telnet

Additional Details

Eclipse Versions: Mars (4.5), Luna (4.4), Kepler (4.3), Juno (4.2, 3.8), Previous to Juno (<=4.1), Neon (4.6), Oxygen (4.7), Photon (4.8), 2018-09 (4.9)

Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK

Organization Name: Paul Verest

Development Status: Production/Stable

Date Created: Friday, October 25, 2013 - 01:37

License: EPL

Date Updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 09:48

Submitted by: Paul Verest

Date Ranking Installs Clickthroughs
January 2026 85/549 76 5
December 2025 77/621 249 38
November 2025 66/626 346 7
October 2025 77/637 310 14
September 2025 82/653 295 19
August 2025 65/615 336 26
July 2025 63/636 346 27
June 2025 77/627 290 20
May 2025 59/634 366 17
April 2025 65/623 372 18
March 2025 64/661 516 19
February 2025 66/645 427 21
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Unsuccessful Installs

Unsuccessful Installs in the last 7 Days: 1

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1 Cannot continue the operation. There is another install operation in progress.
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Submitted by Philippe Cloutier on Mon, 08/18/2025 - 10:00

This used to be a very useful plugin, even though it was never polished. Unfortunately, it has been abandoned since at least 2018. The last update (in 2022) must have been minimal, and did not solve the dependency on the abandoned JSch, which causes the cipher issue reported by Сергей Бакаев and on this forum topic.

I recommend to try Visual Studio Code and its Remote SSH extension instead, but with disclaimers, since unlike Eclipse, Visual Studio Code:

  1. is not an IDE
  2. is not open.

Moreover, its Remote SSH extension remains in development and had always been flaky. However, Visual Studio Code has many times more momentum than Eclipse.

Submitted by yan zhentao on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 03:53

When I use the Launch Terminal function in the right-click menu to open more than 9 terminals, I cannot use this menu to open terminals again, and only restarting Eclipse can solve the problem.

Submitted by Сергей Бакаев on Thu, 11/23/2023 - 05:46

Failed to connect to sshd: Algorithm negotiation failed.

The error occurs because the client and server cannot agree on encryption algorithms. ssh-rsa host keys (SHA1 based RSA) are disabled on the server.

How to configure the client so that it supports the ssh-ed25519 and rsa-sha2-256/rsa-sha2-512 algorithms?

Submitted by Kyle Parker on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 15:06

Hi I need this updated to be compatible with with 2020-03.. need this to perform my work duties, as i don't have permission to select older versions of eclipse and there are no other workarounds that I know of for ssh. 

Submitted by Gregory Defaisse on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 10:05

I'm using Remote systems for some times but finaly I'm looking to change because it doesn't stores ssh/ftp passwords, I check the checkbox but that does no diffrence, it's so stupid.

Submitted by David K Hill on Sun, 03/31/2019 - 19:58

Just got it off of the Kepler Distro..   Started it up and viola, I'm able to browse, explore, SSH into the Linux server.

Thanks for keeping this updated.

Submitted by Melad Ezzat on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 02:54

I am using Eclipse remote system explorer to connect to remote servers, the terminal keep displaying weird characters, and duplicate whatever i write.

view this screenshot imgur.com/uuHHono