running iceweasel on remote host seems wrong

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:15:49 +0200
Miernik 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 -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.

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Liam

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