SSH forwarding of X question

[Michael R. Head]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 13:18 -0400, Bart Silverstrim 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.

You should do a "File/Quit" on any open firefox windows before running
firefox on the remote machine.

> Any explanation?
> 
> -Bart
> 
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