[gameprogrammer] Re: Not game dev related but need some urgent help
- From: ®£$ǖ"v@M$Ħ ¢© $. <theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 21:46:34 +0530
Lol yeah english is my first language :P
Okay, maybe im not getting you cause you guys are professionals while im
just a junior in high school. Maybe some examples would throw some light on
it. Maybe if you could reduce on the 'big' technical terms :P
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Jake Briggs <jakbri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Haha well I don't think you are getting me either! What I describe would
> achieve what you want. With closer inspection, this link
> http://www.thescarms.com/dotnet/Process.aspx describes how to solve your
> problem under the heading "Start an invisible process". In fact, I would
> recommend reading the section with the label "Controlling process
> input/output"
>
> Or, you could use the sharpssh library I linked to which is probably a bit
> cleaner but a bit fiddlyer. It will do exactly what you want. Is English
> your first language? Go and read ALL those links, then come back and ask
> more questions if you need to.
>
>
>
>
> On 07/05/10 14:30, ®£$ǖ"v@M$Ħ ¢© $. wrote:
>
>> I don't think you guys are getting me. Lemme break it down a bit:
>>
>> On my application (on VB) i'm gong to have a few buttons. One of them to
>> establish connection and run a file. When this button is pressed it gets
>> into the code. It should automatically connect to the linux box, auto
>> login, and automatically execute that file. While all this is happening
>> the user should not see the linux box or the putty command line. It
>> should all happen in the background.
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Jake Briggs <jakbri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jakbri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> The same way you were going to access putty or plink I guess. A
>> google gives me many results, but I cannot evaluate them since I am
>> not a vb.net <http://vb.net> expert :
>>
>>
>> http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/7914
>> http://www.thescarms.com/dotnet/Process.aspx
>>
>> http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/8712-vbnet-how-to-execute-a-program-from/
>>
>> There is probably even a way to have stdout redirected back into
>> vb.net <http://vb.net> instead or doing a "command > out"
>>
>>
>> Or you can use a library directly like in this article :
>>
>> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/sharpssh.aspx
>>
>> which looks quite good.
>>
>> Jake
>>
>>
>> On 07/05/10 13:50, ®£$ǖ"v@M$Ħ ¢© $. wrote:
>>
>> But how would i access it directly from my VB code? What you've
>> given is
>> the commands for the command line.
>> Yea, i've tried putty but then that open the linux box and shows
>> that to
>> the user, which is not the requirement for the project
>> unfortunately.
>> Maybe if there was a way i could hard code the IP address and the
>> username and password into PuTTy so would auto connect and login
>> on launch?
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Jake Briggs
>> <jakbri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jakbri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> <mailto:jakbri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jakbri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Instead of a username and password, you should use keys for
>> passwordless logins. You could use
>> http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ and do something like :
>>
>> ssh user@hostname "scriptName.sh -a argument -b argument2" >
>> output.txt
>>
>> The 2nd argument to ssh is the command to run on the
>> machine, and
>> the ">" redirects the output to the file output.txt.
>>
>> Here is how to generate keys :
>> http://nosheep.net/story/password-less-ssh-login/
>>
>> Here is an example. My work machine is called osama, my home
>> machine's URL is obscured (its name is beastie), but there
>> are keys
>> on each :
>>
>> jakbri@osama:/data1/48hrs$ ssh jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> "ls"
>>
>>
>> beastie-bttv.txt
>> debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
>> Desktop
>> linux-wbfs-manager
>> Mail
>> Music
>> osama-bttv.txt
>> Pictures
>> play.sql
>> plucker
>> Projects
>> sdl
>> sync-from-ipod.sh
>> sync-ipod.sh
>> temp
>> Videos
>> jakbri@osama:/data1/48hrs$
>>
>> This example ssh's to the machine at urlto.jake.com
>> <http://urlto.jake.com>
>> <http://urlto.jake.com>, using the username jake, no password
>> since
>>
>> the keys take care of that. It runs the command "ls" which
>> lists the
>> contents of a directory and the results go to the terminal
>> on osama
>> where I ran the command.
>>
>> Another example, the command ls -ls *.txt lists the contents
>> of the
>> directory with filenames that end in .txt and the -l means
>> in a list
>> and the h in -lh means human readable file sizes :
>>
>> jakbri@osama:/data1/48hrs$ ssh jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> "ls
>>
>> -lh *.txt"
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 jake jake 814 2009-07-26 13:15 beastie-bttv.txt
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 jake jake 1.1K 2009-07-26 13:07 osama-bttv.txt
>> jakbri@osama:/data1/48hrs$
>>
>> and another, where I redirect the stdout to a file, then
>> show the
>> file :
>>
>> jakbri@osama:/data1/48hrs$ ssh jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> "ls
>>
>> -lh *.txt" > list.txt
>>
>> jakbri@osama:/data1/48hrs$ cat list.txt
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 jake jake 814 2009-07-26 13:15 beastie-bttv.txt
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 jake jake 1.1K 2009-07-26 13:07 osama-bttv.txt
>> jakbri@osama:/data1/48hrs$
>>
>> I think you could do something similar with plink - the putty
>> command line.
>>
>> Jake
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/05/10 04:54, ®£$ǖ"v@M$Ħ ¢© $. wrote:
>>
>> Glad to hear it's on topic :).
>>
>> I need to connect to the linux box to execute a program
>> from a
>> specific
>> directory, with a known username and password. Also, i
>> need to
>> gather
>> data from the application and display it back in my
>> original
>> program(located on my windows machine)
>>
>> Thanks for your time :)
>>
>> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Alan Wolfe
>> <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> <mailto:alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>>
>> <mailto:alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> <mailto:alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> This is somewhat on topic since networked games
>> sometimes
>> run linux
>> servers and we all dev on windows (pretty much).
>>
>> What do you need to connect for? IE what task are
>> you trying to
>> preform?
>>
>> Depending on the answer to that question, I have a
>> couple
>> different
>> ways you could achieve your goal (:
>>
>> 2010/5/6 ®£$ǖ"v@M$Ħ ¢© $.
>> <theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx>
>> <mailto:theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx>>
>> <mailto:theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> <mailto:theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:theamericansushi@xxxxxxxxx>>>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry guys this isn't game development but i've
>> already
>> exhausted all my resources (google :P ).
>> Okay, so here's a overview. I need remotely
>> connect to a
>> linux
>> based machine from my windows machine via vb.net
>> <http://vb.net>
>> <http://vb.net> <http://vb.net>
>>
>>
>> I've already tried PuTTy but that requires me to
>> enter the
>> username and password after establishing the
>> connection.
>> Maybe
>> if there's a way i can hardcode the username and
>> password so
>> that it auto logins on opening?
>> I really need help doing this so any form of
>> help is really
>> appreciated.
>> BTW pls don't get angry im on the wrong list,
>> you guys
>> were the
>> best help i got before for something else so i
>> thought
>> i'd give
>> this a shot
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Suvamsh
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Jacob Briggs
>> Systems Engineer
>>
>> Core Technology Limited
>> Level 1, NZX Centre
>> 11 Cable Street
>> Wellington
>> Phone +64 4 801 2250
>>
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>>
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