Executing Service Menu Commands on a Remote Server?

[Xplorer4x4]

I am trying to execute a service menu entry on a remote server through Dolphin, but instead of executing the service menu entry it tries to download the file or folder selected on the server to my desktop. Do I need to do something special to the exec line of the service menu?

[vinnywright]

how are you accessing the sever ?

samba,SSH,NFS,...ect,ect, ?

VINNY

[Xplorer4x4]

Hey Vinny I tried using fish and sftp.

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[vinnywright]

try SSH with the -x switch ......it will alow you to launch and see GUI apps on the remote box ...............or do as @SnowHog did hear.http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...291#post303291

VINNY

[Xplorer4x4]

Thanks Vinny, I will explorer both of those options. I wanted to research -x a bit, but bash -x Didnt turn up any results on google so could you enlighten me on what -x stands for so I can read up on it?

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[Snowhog]

-x Disables X11 forwarding.

See man ssh

[vinnywright]

OOPS my bad yup that should have been -X ..........sorry

VINNY

[Snowhog]

-X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a configuration file.

[vinnywright]

Thanks Vinny, I will explorer both of those options. I wanted to research -x a bit, but bash -x Didnt turn up any results on google so could you enlighten me on what -x stands for so I can read up on it?

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sorry mised this one ...............-X is one of SSH's switches or options as it were .....as @Snowhog sead have a look at "man ssh" (type it in a terminal) almost all programs have a man page you can view like this ................man <program name> man is short for "manual"

VINNY

[Xplorer4x4]

Thanks for the info guys, I was able to get X11 fowarding set up and working but still can not seem to get my syntax just right. I opened konsole and played around with basic X11 forwarding:

ssh -X -C user@something.com konsole xclock

launches a forwarded konsole, but would not launch xclock but if I add -e in there like:

ssh -X -C user@something.com konsole -e xclock

the konsole and xclock launch. In this menu I am working with mktorrent, and when I execute the service menu, it always tries to download the file to my desktop. For those not familiar with mktorrent:

Usage: mktorrent [OPTIONS] <target directory or filename>

Options:
-a, --announce=<url>[,<url>]* : specify the full announce URLs
at least one is required
additional -a adds backup trackers
-c, --comment=<comment> : add a comment to the metainfo
-d, --no-date : don't write the creation date
-h, --help : show this help screen
-l, --piece-length=<n> : set the piece length to 2^n bytes,
default is 18, that is 2^18 = 256kb
-n, --name=<name> : set the name of the torrent
default is the basename of the target
-o, --output=<filename> : set the path and filename of the created file
default is <name>.torrent
-p, --private : set the private flag
-t, --threads=<n> : use <n> threads for calculating hashes
default is 2
-v, --verbose : be verbose
-w, --web-seed=<url>[,<url>]* : add web seed URLs
additional -w adds more URLs

Here is an example:
mktorrent -a http://someurl.com/announce -p -l 21 /home/xplorer4x4/desktop/files/somefile.mkv
or for a folder:
mktorrent -a http://someurl.com/announce -p -l 21 /home/xplorer4x4/desktop/files/somefolder

So that bring me to the exec line:
Exec=ssh -X -C user@something.com konsole -e mktorrent -a 'http://someurl.com/announce' -p -l 21 %u
I also tried with out the ticks on the announce url.

This part is likely irrelevant, In winscp for windows, you could create custom commands sort of similar to a service menu. So I could use:
mktorrent -a 'http://YOUR_ANNOUNCE_URL' -p -l 21 !&
In this case !& was a wild card used by winscp meaning "Quoted, space-delimited list of files. Command with the pattern will be executed only once for all selected files." which sounds to me like %u would be the equivalent in this case.

[Xplorer4x4]

Little bump here, I really need to get this working asap!

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