I have, to me, perplexing situation. I am attempting to run Firefox on a CentOS-6.3 virtual machine to which I am connected using an SSH link with X-Forwarding enabled. (ssh -Y userid at host.domain.tld). The reason I wish to do this is that the vm is used for development an my code coverage analysis tool produces a html format report which is read via the file:// protocol. I thought that if I ran Firefox on that host then the Firefox window would open on my local machine, which it does. I also thought that since that Firefox window was actually running as an instance on the remote vm that the file:// protocol for that Firefox would seek out files on the vm's filesystem, which it does not. Instead that Firefox instance searches the local machine's filesystem and not that of the vm from which it was launched. This seems counter-intuitive to me. What is going on? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3