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.
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.
---- 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
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.
have you tried setting your 'preferences | main | downloads' to your local drive?
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:46:33 +0000 g geleem@bellsouth.net 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.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:48:52 -0700 Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
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
Interesting. I will do some investigating. Thanks!
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.
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.
Will the remote machine support sshfs? If so, you could mount the local drive on the remote machine over a ssh link.
Mikkel
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:58:43 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" mikkel@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
Will the remote machine support sshfs? If so, you could mount the local drive on the remote machine over a ssh link.
Now that looks like it will do exactly what I want it to do, in the way that I want it to do it.
I shall do some experimenting with this.
Thanks!
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