[wplug] Remote X question

[Jonathan S Billings]

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 12:03, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> I am sure this isn't working because I am firing up mozilla (which
> does take forever) and when I go to a website, our firewall here
> prompts me for authentication, which it shouldn't if my traffic was
> heading out through the tunnel.

I just tested this, and it looks like the mozilla startup script
actually talks to any local-running mozilla clients through the tunnel,
so you are still actually starting up a new window from your local
workstation.  I guess that's neat, the designers of the mozilla script
didn't think people wanted to actually run remote instances of mozilla
if you were already running a local one.  This is probably useful if you
are reading your email from a remote display, and want to pop up a URL
in an email.

I suggest either quitting the local version of mozilla, or setting up a
proxy to send traffic through on your home network.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Schmertz [mailto:rschmertz at speakeasy.net] 
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: Jonathan S. Billings; Teodorski, Chris
> Cc: WPLUG
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Remote X question
> 
> What do you observe happening when you try this?
> 
> Running X apps over SSH over the Internet has always proven unbearably
> slow for me.  My DSL connection at home has an upload speed of 128K,
> and 
> it takes several minutes for something as simple as xterm to come up. 
> Are you sure that this is not what's happening?
> 
> Jonathan S. Billings incurred the wrath of Bob on Aug 18, by saying
> 
> >How are you starting these programs?  Are you running them off the 
> >remote machine?  Is the $DISPLAY set to the local system:10.0?  If 
> >traffic isn't going over the SSH tunnel, you are either: 1.) not 
> >running the process remotely or 2.) exporting the remote process over
> X 
> >instead of the SSH tunnel.
> >
> >
> >On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 10:17 America/New_York, Teodorski, Chris 
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Please don't beat me silly if this is a stupid question.
> >>
> >> I am using SSH from a box here at work to connect to a box at home.
> I 
> >> added the -X switch so that I can operate X apps remotely.  So, my 
> >> assumption was that all network traffic from those apps (if I were
> to 
> >> run IRC or a browser) would be sent back through the tunnel to my 
> >> machine at home.  However, that doesn't seem to be the behavior
> that I 
> >> am seeing.  Was I mistaken?
> >>
> >>
> >> Chris
> >> (aka Can0Beans)
> >>
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