On 30 Sep 14:14, Mark Rogers wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
On 30 Sep 12:38, Mark Rogers wrote:
What I am trying to do is reach the point where I can connect to a box in a remote office and use (eg) Firefox on the box to view locally hosted web pages, although once I have remote access to a "desktop" there are other ways I could (ab)use that.
Err, locally as in where you are as apposed to where firefox is running? That's, err, not going to work even if you do get NX installed.
Sorry, mixing my locations up. We have a box in a customer's office which runs a small web app (no remote access to the box except SSH). I can make changes to the web app via SSH but can't test the results unless I can "see" it. There are alternatives (eg I'm sure someone can tell me how to tunnel a web connection across SSH) but I'd like it to be something that selected "others" can use who are not Linux types (it'll mostly be me from my Linux box though).
*ahh* - it doesn't allow web connections from outside then?
Right - ssh port forwarding is the way forwards here: ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 user@remoteplace
Then on your laptop go to: http://localhost:8080/
This can also be done with PuTTY using the forwarding options there.
Cheers,