SSH forwarding of X question

[Bart Silverstrim]

Brian McKee wrote:
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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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Dunno if this helps though....

Oookay.  So what I thought should happen, *should* happen.  But it's not.

I guess the question is, why...?  What would intercept the printer?

I guess the next thing to test is file opening to make sure the X 
programs I'm bringing up are actually working properly with locality 
there...that it's launching remote X programs.