I am have a Jenkins setup, where Controller (linux) is connected to slave (windows) via ssh using username/password authentication. I am whenever I try to launch the agent I get Error: Unable to access jarfile remoting.jar. I have tried modifying the file and folder permissions, but that didn’t seen…

s/slave/agent/ I don’t think java 16 us supported yet, but I don’t think that would cause the problem My guess is that the jar file isn’t a jar file. Can you open it in an editor to confirm its not html, or rename it to .zip and see if explorer can read the contents?

Sorry for the very late reply. The file can be read by explorer when renamed to .zip. I will try downgrading to java 11 later today, and will update this thread if it works.

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Thank you for your help! UPDATE: I have figured out that it must have something to do with the cmd.exe shell, because it runs fine on PowerShell. I will try to figure out a workaround for this and will update this thread later today.

Cd on windows in CMD.exe changes the path for the drive but do es not change the drive. So cd d:\foo still leaves you in C:\somewhere. To change the current drive you also need to cd d:. (note the absence of a path. So by using -jar renoting.jar you are telling java to load tempting fro. The curr…

Thank you so much, this worked!

Unable to access jarfile remoting.jar

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kuisathaverat (Ivan Fernandez Calvo) January 4, 2022, 12:15pm 6

The error is in the troubleshooting guide ssh-slaves-plugin/TROUBLESHOOTING.md at 22bdd5d2b9f429b099400390330bd1801e5467c5 · jenkinsci/ssh-slaves-plugin · GitHub

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