Or you could use nx/freenx, a very fast remote windowing option from
nomachine that runs over ssh.

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 09:17 +0100, Tim Verbois wrote:
> I tried it with the local interface, it didn't work, but it should work, 
> I think I did something wrong there.  But it isn't really something I 
> can let all my collegues do.  I should give them the possibility of 
> connecting to that ip, but then on a server, not everyone on there own pc.
> 
> But here are some possibilities when I work that out.
> 
> Jason Kölker wrote:
> > You will probably have to also kill the java web start cache.  If you
> > don't have other web start apps installed just remove ~/.java.
> >
> > If that doesn't work you always could bind the ip to a local interface.
> >
> > Happy Hacking!
> >
> > 7-11
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 07:49 +0100, Tim Verbois wrote:
> >   
> >> I tried that, but the java admin keeps connecting to the original ip 
> >> address.  Even when I change all the entries in de gconsole.j... file, 
> >> even then he keeps looking for the original ip. 
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >> Yaron Zabary wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Tim Verbois wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> 90% of our team is located behind firewalls.  The only way to reach 
> >>>> servers is through ssh ports (2 hops).
> >>>> This implies that it is impossible to run the java tool on their pc.  
> >>>> I made a script that starts te tool on the backupserver in an ssh 
> >>>> session.  That way, it is possible to run it through an ssh X session 
> >>>> to a pc somewhere.  This works, but very very slow.
> >>>> Are there other possibilities?  I suppose a lot of organisations have 
> >>>> there backupserver behind firewalls?
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>>   Haven't tried that, but you could try and forward the application's 
> >>> port via ssh (or putty) and try to point the browser at localhost. 
> >>> Look at appendix B of the Admin guide. Table 119 lists ports 9000, 
> >>> 9001 and 2638 for console access. For a Unix desktop, that should be 
> >>> 'ssh -L9000:nsrhost:9000 -L9001:nsrhost:9001 -L2638:nsrhost:2638 
> >>> root@nsrhost'.
> >>>
> >>>       
> 

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