[lug] ssh -X question

[Kenneth D Weinert]

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I'm a bit confused.  I was under the impression that if I ssh into a
different machine with the X forwarding option that any program I ran
would run *on that machine* and the display would be redirected to the
machine I logged in from.

This appears to be true for everything *except* my browser. Well,
firefox at any rate.

I have a new  64 bit laptop and the VPN from work doesn't support
that, so I ssh into the older desktop and fire up the browser to start
the VPN.

However, that doesn't work as the browser appears to want to start up
things on my local machine.

I had the same browser issue with trying to configure CUPS -
localhost:631 from the remoted browser shows the configuration on the
local machine.

Is the browser/firefox just a special case?

Thanks.

Ken

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