remote app -- local data

[Frank Cox]

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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MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

[Frank Cox]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:48:52 -0700
Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com&gt; 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!

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MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:58:43 -0500
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com&gt; 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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MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

[Mikkel]

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
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[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
    lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:46:33 +0000
g <geleem(a)bellsouth.net&gt; 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.

-- 
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

[g]

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?

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tc,hago.

g
.

in a free world without fences, who needs gates.

[Craig White]

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