On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 16:30 +0200, Rick Rocker wrote: > Hello to all, > > My question is : How can I make an environment where the user starts > an application on a remote machine but accesses his local data? > > For example: I have two machines called "funghi" and "tonno" (the > names are the hostnames). I am sitting in front of "funghi" and "ssh > -X" to "tonno" and start an office app. Then I get only access to the > data residing on "tonno" (for example if I click to "open file" in the > started office app). > And there is my problem: How can I get access to the local data on > "funghi"? > > > What I want to accomplish (for Debian but also for other free OS > projects): > I want to make an "advertising" campaign by hosting various > interesting applications (of free software) - for example I want to > host the Office suites of Gnome and KDE, but also some other > applications from the scientific field - . The interested users will > get an access to my hosting machine (username and password) after > asking for access. Then they will be able to "ssh -X" to this machine > to start the application. > > BUT (and here is my last not solved problem ): The user should then > get access to his local data (meaning: on his home machine) from the > remote application. sshfs. Look it up. Use it, love it. It is very very very nice as a userland tool, once installed. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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