Re: Problems with CORBA and SSH

[Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp fm>]

Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:

> > In theory, this should just mean that SSH should look for the
> > GNOME_NAME_SERVER property in the X config, and then forward the socket
> > it finds there to the remote machine from the local machine. Will this
> > work?
> 
> Probably not, because the connection to the name-server is just for
> bootstrapping. After that, other connections will be needed....

Ok, so as I understand it - an app pulls the IOR out of the X property.
It then uses this to talk to the ORBit name service. It in turn tells
the app how to connect to the service requested, using a different
socket. Boom.

Hmmm...

An ORBit client (such as a Gnome app) requests the services of some
CORBA service. I assume it is the ORBit name service that starts that
CORBA service up, otherwise it hands the ORBit client the contact
details (in this case a socket) of the CORBA service if it is already
running.

What might work is a way for ORBit-name-service and SSH to collude with
each other so that when any ORBit service is started on the local
machine, a corresponding forwarded socket is automatically created on
the remote machine as well. As a result, any ORBit client on the remote
machine will always find ORBit services on the local machine using the
same socket names all round.

Um...

Regards,
Graham
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