[CentOS] vnc - single application or a "remote localhost" on Firefox
Frank Cox
theatre at sasktel.net
Wed Aug 12 19:24:00 UTC 2009
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.
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