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?
port forward localhost:8080 (or some other arbitrary port) to remote:80 via ssh.. for instance, in putty's somewhat wretched connection configuration dialog, go to connection->ssh->tunnels, leave 'local ports accept connections from other hosts' and 'remote ports do same' unchecked, enter the source port 8080, the destination localhost:80, check 'local' and 'auto' under destination, and click 'Add', then save this along with the rest of the session settings (host, user, tec) to a named session. make this connection, and point your local Windows web browser to http://localhost:8080/legersmb.....
note, this will NOT work for SSL sessions (https://...)
another approach is NX, but I don't know much about this. iit works more like the X-forwarding thing but uses a more efficient protocol than plain X.