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I have an academic account on a unix box that I can telnet to, but what
I want to be able to do is somehow connect to this box and then use one
of their IPs to surf the web.  There is a server that is you cannot see
from outside their collection of IP addresses.  So what I would like to
do is use one of their IP address and a graphical browser on my side.
Currently, I can telnet and load up lynx, but w/o graphics, navagation
on the web has become almost impossible.  Does any one know if this is
possible, and if it is...how I would go around doing it?

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Before you buy.

Well, one way would be to start a PPP session to your school account, but
that usually involves dialup, etc. But it sounds like your local machine
(PC?) is on a network? If it's a PC, there is X Windows emulation software
out there that'll let you run things (browsers, xv, xclock, etc.) on the
UNIX box and it'll show on your local screen. I think one place is
www.starnet.com (Xwin32). You'll probably have to do a setenv DISPLAY to
get it to show up on your local screen.

If your local machine is a UNIX box, you might be able to do just a setenv
DISPLAY to your local screen and run stuff on the remote UNIX machine. But
if you're behind a firewall, it may not work (or there are a bunch of
different possible problems). But like if your local machine's hostname is
mach1.foo.com, you'd type setenv DISPLAY mach1.foo.com:0.0 in your telnet
session to your school account and try running stuff.

Hope this helps.

Tony

BTW: I do often the same as you, because the Internet connection at
work is even slower than at home (here in the UK), and I let do my
ISP's server in the US do the HTTP work, and let send me only the
visual results.

For gathering information, it's not bad, and you can download graphics
(to the servers HD) if you want to..