SSH forwarding of X question

[Paul Thompson]

I have the same setup as Bart and I am getting the same results. The
printers that show up in Firefox are my local printers, not the ones
install on the remote machine.

Paul Thompson

On 7/19/07, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
> Here's a silly question.
>
> I thought that because of locality of reference, I thought that if I
> were on one computer and logged into another and launched an X
> application and went to print, it would use the other system's printer.
>   Instead, I'm getting my local one...why?
>
> 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.
>
> Any explanation?
>
> -Bart
>
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