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Date:      Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:16:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com>
To:        Karel Miklav <karel@inetis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Remote X client
Message-ID:  <20050607191506.F64334@mail.goinet.com>
In-Reply-To: <42A4B246.1060103@inetis.com>
References:  <42A4B246.1060103@inetis.com>

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Take this demon-spawn firefox and point it to this address:

http//www.whatismyip.com

Well, what is it?  What is your local IP?  Do they match?

point it at a file in your remote filesystem.  Does it work?

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Karel Miklav wrote:

> I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run Thunderbird, Links etc.
> remotely and everything looks and works great. Now I try Firefox and
> WTF! it read configuration from the local machine! Links and settings
> are all local and it doesn't resolve as I didn't set up route on local
> machine yet. So it's local, but how can that happen - it was run over
> ssh on remote machine?!
>
> Regards,
> Karel Miklav
>
>
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