SSH forwarding of X question

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 19:42:22 UTC 2007


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On 18/07/07, Bart Silverstrim  wrote:
> I am on one computer in my physically local network (for example,
> Superman).  I want to log into a system in another network named
> Spider-Man.  Both are running Ubuntu 7.04.
>
> ssh -X -C myusername at spider-man-network.com
>
> I log in, execute mozilla-firefox.  After a pause, firefox pops up.  go
> to a web page.  Go to file->print.  The printers available to
> Spider-Man, I get the printers installed on Superman here.

Boy - you had me going there for a minute.   I just tried it and
that's not what happens when I try it.  I get the printers available
on the remote machine...   I can't get what you describe.

Dunno if this helps though....
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