Apparently, it is not possible to link a local Netbeans on a client with a tomcat installed on a server. Makes my tomcat installation quite unuseful, at the moment… 
I therefore installed tomcat on the client as well – and followed a Wiki entry on how to integrate it with Netbeans (I’ll be using Netbeans in the next course I am doing at the OU – so it’s a good idea to start playing around with it). I created the symlink to /etc/tomcat-5.5 in /usr/share/tomcat-5.5 and added myself to the tomcat group.
On the server, I recompiled tomcat with the admin USE flag (I added it to /etc/portage/package.use); then, I gave my user in /etc/tomcat-5.5/tomcat-users.xml the admin role as well.
