On 07/12/2007, Ross Cavanagh <ross-cavanagh at bm-sms.co.jp> wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > Jerry Geis wrote: > >> I can ssh into a remote machine. > >> I can start X on that machine with startx > >> > >> How do I then start firefox on that machine (from the ssh prompt) and > >> have it display on my machine in my office. > >> > >> So I want to be using firefox on the remote machine but displaying the > >> screen output from firefox in my office. > >> Both boxes are running centos 5. > > > > don't startx on the REMOTE machine, have it running on the LOCAL machine. > > > > local$ ssh -X remote > > ...authenticate... > > remote$ firefox & > > > > and firefox should open on the local... > or you can do a port forward if you wanted to just use your local browser. > > ssh -L <local-port>:localhost:<remote-port> <user>@<destination> > > eg. ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 root at somedomain.com > > then, in your local browser, simply type localhost:8080 as the url to > display port 80 from the remote server. That's a good one. You can take it further (if you have more than one site/port to connect to) - install a proxy on the remote machine (e.g. "squid" or maybe apache's mod_proxy) and forward a tunnel to it as you describe then setup localhost:8080 as your proxy (firefox extensions can allow you to use this proxy only for certain sites). Cheers, --Amos