Re: remote app -- local data

2008-06-24 Thread 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? -- tc,hago. g .

Re: remote app -- local data

2008-06-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:46:33 + g [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.

Re: remote app -- local data

2008-06-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:48:52 -0700 Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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!

Re: remote app -- local data

2008-06-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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

Re: remote app -- local data

2008-06-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:58:43 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.

remote app -- local data

2008-06-23 Thread 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

Re: remote app -- local data

2008-06-23 Thread 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