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

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@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.