Can you not install the Slave as a service on the machine?
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdb...@vs-networks.com> wrote: > On 12/6/2012 11:06 AM, Jerry wrote: > >> Hi, Joshua. When using the JNLP connection, I have found that we have >> gotten cryptic messages similar to this when the connection is lost. The >> JNLP connection is much more fragile than SSH, and if there is even a minor >> interruption in network connection, everything might go kablooey and give >> you weird errors. >> > > Why can't jenkins just restart the connection? Can anyone else suggest > ways to make JNLP more reliable? > > >> Can you install OpenSSH or another SSH server (we use Bitvise here) on >> your Windows slave and see if that resolves the problem? I can't guarantee >> that it will, but using an SSH connection will have other benefits (most >> especially more reliability), so it's not wasted time in any case. >> > > Does bitvise allow running GUI programs via ssh? After trying, then > giving up on freesshd, I then tried opensshd, but I can't get GUI programs > (like the web browser for selenium testing, or calc just for trying to get > anything to work) working correctly when launched via SSH (and I didn > enable "Allow service to interact with desktop"). >
