SSH forwarding of X question

[Bruce Ferrell]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
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>>Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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>>>>Any explanation?
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>>>   The machine you're on is the print-system's default location?
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>>The machine I'm on and the machine I'm ssh'ing into are in two totally 
>>separate networks.  The other side is actually going from this internal 
>>network into the Internet and then to a soho-router with portforwarding 
>>to an internal system.
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>>>   Here I have 5 machines, the one main machine (without a head) has all
>>>the services, and sits next to a printer.  When I run things on other
>>>workstations, it uses the  _remote_ system's default printer...which is
>>>the same for every workstation.
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>>Don't know...both "superman" and "spiderman" are plain old' Ubuntu 
>>workstations.  No designation of a print server.  The printers set up on 
>>Superman are TCP/IP printers and the remote system also has TCP/IP 
>>printers, but they're two different printers.
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>     This seems more a Firefox issue than anything else.  I've not had
> the printing system to 'break' in many years, so I've not had to deal
> with it for several years (about 6-7 actually).
> 
>     There will be printers defined in Firefox; I remember having to set
> one up, here. It's possible that the program knows where the I/O is
> coming from, and using your local printer as a 'feature', but that
> doesn't sound like it's one to you.
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>     Can you use this remotely, set up a printer that's on the remote
> site and print to it, then?  There's a bit of 'automagic' that goes on
> with Firefox; normally it's a good thing.  :)
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>     What's the underlying print mechanism here, cups?  Are you able to
> print to a remote printer on both sides?  I get the feeling that'd be
> important for you.
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Mozilla, which firefox still is technically, looks for a running copy 
locally and if it finds it just runs locally.  Theoretically you can 
modify the start script so it doesn't do this, but I've not been bugged 
enough by the behavior to do it