[CentOS] vnc - single application or a "remote localhost" on Firefox

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:04:08 -0600
Frank Cox wrote:

> The other approach would be to somehow do use some kind of ssh port-forwarding
> under Firefox so he could run Firefox locally on his own computer, and somehow
> access http://localhost/ledgersmb on the remote machine.  Is there such a thing
> as a "remote localhost" that would work like that?

Someone else just gave me the solution to this problem.

All I had to do was enter this at a commandline on my computer:

 ssh frankcox at remotecomputer -L 8080:localhost:80

Now typing http://localhost:8080/ledgersmb into the Firefox on my desktop loads
the ledgersmb program on my local computer.

-- 
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com