Getting remote access to jupyter notebook

[Michael Andrews]

Hi Anthony, thanks for the detailed instructions, this works for me.

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:30 PM Anthony Wertz <awertz at cmu.edu> wrote:

> I almost always use a tunnel, configured similar to what Predrag specified.
>
> You can greatly simplify this process by storing these proxy
> configurations in your SSH config file, e.g. on my laptop I can put in
> ~/.ssh/config (on macOS, similar on *nix, you're on your own on Windows):
>
> Host bash
>    Hostname bash.autonlab.org
>    UseKeychain yes
>
> Host gpu2
>    Hostname gpu2
>    ProxyCommand ssh bash exec nc %h %p
>    UseKeychain yes
>
> And with that I can forward a port from GPU2 as if I could directly see
> the machine:
>
> ssh -L <A>:localhost:<B> gpu2
>
> That being said, I proxy through my workstation which is substantially
> beefier than bash, so using bash as the middle-man might be what's slowing
> things down (Predrag can comment on that, there might be better gateways to
> use). I generally have no issues forwarding jupyter notebooks or anything
> else this way, and (for me at least) it's usually snappier than running a
> browser in X2go (might be the mac client or my failure to configure things
> properly :-))
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:19 PM Predrag Punosevac <
> predragp at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Michael Andrews <mbandrews at cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Predrag,
>> >
>> > Does it help with the firewall issue if I have a separate tunnel from my
>> > local machine to bash.autonlab.org and another one from the gpu
>> machine to
>> > bash.autonlab.org?
>>
>>
>> No makes it more complicated
>>
>> >
>> > Does anyone else use jupyter notebooks remotely?
>> >
>>
>> Yes using X2go as explained during the orientation.
>>
>> Predrag
>>
>> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:09 PM Predrag Punosevac <
>> predragp at andrew.cmu.edu>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Ok I think I am getting what is happening here. You are essentially
>> > > using reverse ssh proxy as a VPN tunnel and then run Browser through
>> > > it. That is going to be very slow and it is more or less the same
>> > > thing you would do with
>> > >
>> > > ssh -Y -o "ProxyCommand ssh username at bash.autonlab.org" blabla
>> > >
>> > > What I am saying is try to use X2Goclient to connect via
>> > > bash.autonlab.org proxy to a computing node of your liking and then
>> > > start the browser in X2Goclinent custom (openbox) session. That would
>> > > work in real time. My only concern is that in the past week or two I
>> > > and Rob were getting blacklisted by CMU firewall for using NX. Let me
>> > > think little bit more about the problem. I am surprised nobody wrote a
>> > > server mode for Jypiter notebook like the one there is for Rstudio.
>> > >
>> > > Predrag
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:39 PM Michael Andrews <mbandrews at cmu.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hi all,
>> > > >
>> > > > Is there a way to get remote access to a jupyter notebook running
>> on one
>> > > of the gpu machines without using a reverse ssh (i.e.
>> > >
>> https://medium.com/@sankarshan7/how-to-run-jupyter-notebook-in-server-which-is-at-multi-hop-distance-a02bc8e78314
>> )
>> > > as this apparently violates firewall rules?
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > > Michael
>> > >
>>
>
>
> --
> *Anthony Wertz*
> Research Programmer and Analyst
> Robotics Institute - Auton Lab
> Carnegie Mellon University
> awertz at cmu.edu
>
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