remote app -- local data

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jun 24 05:48:52 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 22:45 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I need to run a program on a computer that I normally access through a tunneled
> VNC desktop over SSH. I want to have that remote program save its data on my
> local hard drive.
> 
> For example, if my remote program was Firefox, I would want anything that I
> downloaded to be saved into my local directory, not into a directory on the
> remote computer where Firefox is actually running.
> 
> Is there a way to achieve this?  On a somewhat related note, is there a way to
> tell VNC not to load a full desktop, but but just to run one single program?
> ssh -X is too slow over this link.
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ssh -XC (C is for compressed...might be useful)

anyway, freenx is capable of saving to local smb server - also works
better than anything else on limited bandwidth

Craig




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