Remote Jupyter Lab

Here we assume that the server/ host is a Windows 10 machine and the customer/client is a Linux machine.

Setup the Windows server

1. Enable OpenSSH

Get-WindowsCapability -Online | Where-Object Name -like 'OpenSSH*'

This should tell which one is installed.

OpenSSH.Client is to access connections

OpenSSH.Server to create servers

2. Install missing dependencies

# Install the OpenSSH Client

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Client~~~~0.0.1.0

# Install the OpenSSH Server

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Server~~~~0.0.1.0

3. Go to services and find two servers starting with OpenSSH

Start the services and set them to manual as we are not always using SSH

Now, our Windows 10 can accept and host SSH connections.

Setup the Linux Client

4. On Linux PC, check if SSH deamon (service) is running

sudo systemctl status sshd

If it is not install use:

sudo apt install openssh-server

5. Enable the SSH server on system boot

sudo systemctl enable ssh

Now, from either windows or Linux we can SSH using ssh "Username"@localIP.

Configure Jupyter Lab

1. Generate config file

jupyter lab --generate-config

2. Set password for security I’ve set it as hell

jupyter lab password

3. start Jupyter lab from anaconda prompt on server computer

# ip 0.0.0.0 listen on all IPs

# –no-browser for not opening Jupyter lab on the server itself

jupyter lab --ip 0.0.0.0 --no-browser --port=8888

Find your local IP version 4

In Windows its ipconfig in cmd and find the ip for current hardware i.e. wifi or ethernet.

In Linux its ip addr in terminal and find ip for current hardware.

4. On the client computer

Open a web browser.

Type the URL as <your local ip address>:<port for jupyterlab>