On Monday 07 August 2006 06:26 am, stephan beal wrote: <SNIP>
ssh -CX me@remotehost
If the machine where your account is running supports X forwarding, and the machine has firefox/mozilla/netscape/konqueror/whatever installed, you can then run the browser. It is likely that the remote server doesn't have X11 installed, though (most hosted servers don't, in my experience).
X forwarding is kind of slow and adds unneeded traffic overhead anyway. Jan Engelhardt's suggestion of starting a proxy on your ssh account and then using ssh tunneling would be the best. However, the proxy option may not be available on your ssh account either. You could still use ssh tunneling. Suppose you found an available proxy at proxy.somewhere.com running on port 3128. Next suppose you had ssh access at ssh.anotherplace.com. You could do something like this: ssh -L 3128:proxy.somewhere.com:3128 ssh.anotherplace.com After logging on, minimize your ssh session and start your browser. Set your browser up to use a proxy at 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) and port 3128. -- Louis Richards