SSH forwarding of X question

[Marnes]

To me, it work as follows.

If I run a firefox in remote machine and there is not a firefox
running in local machine, ok, it runs remotely (and use remote
printer).

But if I run a firefox in remote machine and there is already a
firefox in local machine (with the same user and the ssh done by same
user), the remote firefox is open as a new windows of the local
running firefox (and use local printer).

So, when I really want to it runs remotely, I need to close all
instances of firefox running in the local machine, or use a different
username to login in remote machine (I created a different user
specially to do this).

Maybe it be your problem too.

I don't know how to prevent it. If someone knows, tell me please.

TIA

On 7/18/07, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
> Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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> > Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> >> Here's a silly question.
> >>
> >> I thought that because of locality of reference, I thought that if I
> >> were on one computer and logged into another and launched an X
> >> application and went to print, it would use the other system's printer.
> >>   Instead, I'm getting my local one...why?
> >>
> >> I am on one computer in my physically local network (for example,
> >> Superman).  I want to log into a system in another network named
> >> Spider-Man.  Both are running Ubuntu 7.04.
> >>
> >> ssh -X -C myusername at spider-man-network.com
> >>
> >> I log in, execute mozilla-firefox.  After a pause, firefox pops up.  go
> >> to a web page.  Go to file->print.  The printers available to
> >> Spider-Man, I get the printers installed on Superman here.
> >>
> >> Any explanation?
> >
> >    The machine you're on is the print-system's default location?
>
> The machine I'm on and the machine I'm ssh'ing into are in two totally
> separate networks.  The other side is actually going from this internal
> network into the Internet and then to a soho-router with portforwarding
> to an internal system.
>
> >    Here I have 5 machines, the one main machine (without a head) has all
> > the services, and sits next to a printer.  When I run things on other
> > workstations, it uses the  _remote_ system's default printer...which is
> > the same for every workstation.
>
> Don't know...both "superman" and "spiderman" are plain old' Ubuntu
> workstations.  No designation of a print server.  The printers set up on
> Superman are TCP/IP printers and the remote system also has TCP/IP
> printers, but they're two different printers.
>
>
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