[wenc]

Oh I see now. You want to run the raw kernel with no front-end on the remote machine and communicate with it via the 0MQ/JSON transport layer. I'm curious, what is the advantage of doing this vs. simply running an instance of Jupyter on a remote machine?

[nerdponx]

I don't necessarily want to use Jupyter as the front end. This way lets me use e.g. Pycharm with the kernel running in a console.

BTW I managed to get it to work. I think I had missed a port the first time I tried.