On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:15:49 +0200 Miernik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Strange problem. I have two debian machines, one local at home, and > one remote somewhere. At home I am connected behind a NAT, and the > remote machine has a public IP. > > I want to run iceweasel on the remote machine, and let it display on > my local machine. I have iceweasels installed on both machines. > > So from the local machine I do: > > ssh -Cv [EMAIL PROTECTED] -X > > After a while I get a prompt of the remote machine, looks OK, ls gives > me listing of files on that machine. > > env shows DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 > > So I run 'iceweasel' there. And after some time I get it displayed, > but... it seems that it runs it somehow on my local machine, for > example file:/// > displays the root directory of my local machine, not the remote one, > and when I browse, with tcpdump I see HTTP traffic, and not SSH > traffic as I expected. > > I don't understand it. How I am supposed to run iceweasel on the > remote machine (using only the local display), so it would work as it > would be sitting at the remote machine? > Is iceweasel already running on the local machine when you start iceweasel on the remote machine? If so, then the remote instance opens a new window in the local instance, then exits. You can prevent that behaviour by closing the local instance first, or by launching the remote instance with the '-no-remote' option. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
