Properly connect to remote server

[victor-cali]

Hello everyone.

I am trying to get up and running a Jupyter remote server I can acces from my local VS Code. The server seems to be ready, I can access it from my browser and my Windows Terminal SSH. I based mostly on this tutorial to get the server running, with a few changes due to the use of jupyter server instead of jupyter lab.

The tutorial got me through creating the server, however now I have problems accessing it with VS Code. The server uses password and a ssl certificate so it has no token. the host I input to vscode looks something like this: https://server-ip.server-port. Such address will take me to an empty screen with the legend: A Jupyter Server is running.

If I write the endpoint /lab? then I will enter Jupyter Lab UI. I have tried both with and without such endpoint (it always cuts the endpoint out and adds /?token=null) and it does seem to connect at first, at least that is what it says at the bottom right corner with the option Jupyter Server: marked as remote. However, in the kernel select menu at the upper right corner, I cannot see the environments of the remote server but only my local environments, when I run !hostname command, I can see I am still in my local machine.

PS. I should add I use anaconda both in my local and remote for environments, never had problems with the local, and the remote ones I can see them at the browser UI.

Any advice? :(

[rchiodo]

What does the jupyter output show?

If there's no token provided we try to query the server to see if it needs a user name (I believe by just asking for the /tree subfolder) but this may not work if your server doesn't respond the way we expect.

[amunger]

I think someone on the team just hit this as well and should be fixed in the next release: #10963

you could work around it by running jupyter notebook instead of jupyter lab, and using the server URL from that output