I've installed hadoop on a linux cluster and I'm now trying to execute a job remotely from a windows machine (e.g. $REMOTE_MACHINE:bin/hadoop jar hadoop-example.jar ) . I've searched around but wasn't able to find anything helpful so far. Can anybody give me an idea on how to do that? I'm posting it here since I assume the eclipse plugin doing the same thing: sending a jar file to a remote server and starting the execution.