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).
Just out of interest, why do you want to use NX? Could you just use vncserver + the java vncviewer for browser based messing?
No particular reason, except I've found NX to be fairly good. However, if someone can help me get VNC running over SSH (bearing in mind at the moment the box has no X installation) that would be fine too. FWIW the box is a fairly simple Ubuntu-Server install (8.04), and is big enough in terms of CPU, disk and memory to support a GUI, I just didn't bother installing one initially and I'd like to keep the installation to a minimum given its rarely going to be used.