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I do all of my work for users remotely. Most of the time it is simply an ssh session. Occasionally I need to open some X software and have it display back to my machine. If for example I open an xterm, I will get directories on the remote machine. But if I open a Firefox session, it is looking at the machine I logged in from. I want to open an html file on the remote machine.
I guess I did not make myself clear. I know how to do the above setup, but what happen is when I want to browse files, Firefox is looking at the local machine, not the remote machine. There were html help file located on the remote machine I was after and Firefox kept looking in my home directory on the local machine. I kept searching and found something I never knew about, even though I have used this setup for years. When starting firefox on the remote machine type:
firefox -no-remote
That allowed me to browse to the directory on the remote machine that had the help files.
The key to the fix is starting firefox with '-no-remote'
Quote:
Originally Posted by astrogeek
I think that is what I said... but glad you got it working!
The key to the fix was starting firefox with the '-no-remote', otherwise I was still getting my local directory and not the remote directory. I did not see the '-no-remote' in your directions. At any rate, problem solved.
I get the feeling I saw this a few days ago. Astrogeek did a great job of suggesting a solution and at the time I felt complete.
One of the ideas was this "or start the remote firefox with firefox -no-remote." See Post #2
I'll give him a help point, you should too.
Ah, I completely missed that last sentence. Sorry to everyone. When I read the first part, I thought I had already explained that exactly what was happening. I did not see the '-no-remote'. My apologies to everyone, and at the top of that apology list is Astrogeek.
Ah, I completely missed that last sentence. Sorry to everyone. When I read the first part, I thought I had already explained that exactly what was happening. I did not see the '-no-remote'. My apologies to everyone, and at the top of that apology list is Astrogeek.
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