Remote Jupyter access of home DL rig

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Heya all,

I finally managed to successfully follow Jeremy s instructions http://forums.fast.ai/t/howto-installation-on-windows/10439 to create my home brew DL rig but I’ve hit a bit of an odd problem, I can’t seem to access the jupyter notebook from my laptop (i.e. from my couch) when running the jupyter notebook on the desktop.
Obviously I can remote into the desktop and do it that way but ideally I’d like to just open up a browser on the laptop and give it the old :8888. I’m assuming the answer is buried in the config file but i’m struggling with the jupyter documentation.

Thanks in advance

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Do you get an error message, or does it just time out? If you’re on the same network it shouldn’t be a problem unless you’re trying the wrong address, or the host has something blocking the port. I’d look at those before any jupyter config.

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So I have four lines of configuration in my ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py and am sitting with on my couch with my laptop:

c.NotebookApp.base_url = '/my-ipython-url'
c.NotebookApp.ip = '0.0.0.0'
c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False
c.NotebookApp.password = 'sha1:not_really_this_text'

You might get by without 1 and 3, but this works best for me. There is a utility to get the password string, but I forgot the exact name - but there are lots of comments, too.

The other thing I had to solve was reconnecting to jupyter notebooks (I was annoyed at loosing too much output) - I solved that with really hacky modifications of Jupyter Notebook itself. (It will complain about a too high message rate if you run output-intensive notebooks and reconnect, though.)

Best regards

Thomas

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how exactly are you connecting?
I for example did this by my home wifi, just needed to assign IP for my box (by forwarding on router), and then just simply “jupyter notebook --ip: XXX” where XXX is box local IP.

Oh, and you should setup a password, otherwise I think you would have to enter token.

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You can set up an ssh tunnel to forward port 8888 from your DL rig to your laptop:
ssh -N -f -L localhost:8888:localhost:8888 user@dl-rig-ip-address. See the “Outside access” section of this article https://blog.slavv.com/the-1700-great-deep-learning-box-assembly-setup-and-benchmarks-148c5ebe6415 for more info on how to get that set up.

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Thanks for a quick reply @digitalspecialists but by the time I got around to answering you the other guys had chimed in. It seem the answer is that Jupyter itself was blocking me.

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Ok guys, first off thanks for your quick replies. I had actually tried a few of these things but with no success but I may have mis-understood some of the instructions when taken out of context.

So: Gold medal for simplest answer goes to…@sayko, quick and dirty from the conda CLI (but I did need a pre-set password).
Silver Medal for basically the same answer but less CLI and more config file (aka, the longer term solution) goes to @t-v
Finally the bronze medal for what may be the best (and most technically correct) answer goes to @wdhorton, I’ll use this option eventually but ssh is only easy on linux (or mac, i dunno).

Thanks to all of you for helping me out

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I’m Using ngrok. It works like a charm and able to access it from outside lan aswel. Have look at my blog.

you can look at the section " Making your system accessible from internet"