On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:49:44AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I must try getting X forwarding working with ssh, at present it doesn't but I think that may be partly due to going through intermediate systems. I now have the work firewall opened up (small company, I'm friendly with the IT people) so that I can connect direct to from my home system so it may well be that I can get ssh/X tunneling working.
... and I can, I now have X working through my ssh connection from work to home. However, running firefox across this connection is not really a practical proposition, it's too slow to be really usable.
The first time I tried it firefox outsmarted me, it worked out that there was a copy of firefox already running on my Solaris box at work and popped up a new window from that rather than running a copy on my home system and using X. I had to close down the firefox on my work system before starting the remote firefox at home, then it worked, but very slowly.
I think I'll just enable the telnet router management for the outside world and specify what IP addresses it can work from, that (along with a good password) is secure enough.
I'm pleased to have got the X working across ssh though, simpler things like terminal windows run at perfectly acceptable speed, it also means I can work from home more practically as there are a few X applications that I need to run to do much work even though most of the time I'm using terminal windows.