Re: SSH forwarding of X question

To me, it work as follows.

If I run a firefox in remote machine and there is not a firefox
running in local machine, ok, it runs remotely (and use remote
printer).

But if I run a firefox in remote machine and there is already a
firefox in local machine (with the same user and the ssh done by same
user), the remote firefox is open as a new windows of the local
running firefox (and use local printer).

So, when I really want to it runs remotely, I need to close all
instances of firefox running in the local machine, or use a different
username to login in remote machine (I created a different user
specially to do this).

Maybe it be your problem too.

I don't know how to prevent it. If someone knows, tell me please.

TIA

On 7/18/07, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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?

The machine you're on is the print-system's default location?

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.

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.

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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