On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:14:32PM +0100, 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).
Well it's dead easy to run via ssh, trivial even.
ssh -X <name.of.remote.system>
... and when connected ...
firefox
... and it should just work running firefox on the remote system and displaying it on the local system. Just a couple of caveats/gotchas - you need to make sure the remote system doesn't change DISPLAY in its login process, and you *might* need to do "ssh -Y" instead of "ssh -X".