remote app -- local data

[Les Mikesell]

Frank Cox wrote:
> 
>> have you tried setting your 'preferences | main | downloads' to your
>> local drive?
> 
> The local drive doesn't exist on the remote computer, so I can't set any
> preferences to it.
> 
> And it's not actually Firefox, that was just an example.  It's a custom
> program that downloads stuff from a server that can only be accessed from a
> certain IP address range.
> 
> Thanks anyway, though.

If all you need is to make it appear that the connection came from a 
different machine, either run a proxy on that machine (squid will handle 
http/ftp) or use ssh port-forwarding and run the apps locally.  If you 
really have to run an app on the intermediate machine, mount your drive 
into it with NFS or samba - but since you mentioned it being slow, you 
probably won't like that.

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   Les Mikesell
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