Transitioning from Linux to Windows

[Wolfgang Maier]

On 03.06.2017 15:44, chitturk at uah.edu wrote:
> I am looking for suggestions, ideas.
> 
> I have developed python (3.6.x, 2.7.x) scripts that run well as a user on an ubuntu/16.04 system - the scripts look for files, parses the files, assembles an output for the user.
> 
> I first cd into a particular directory on the system (where I know the files exist) and run the script - the final result is in my working directory.
> 
> What I am now trying to do is ... figure out the least painful way to have other users do the same - BUT sitting in front of a Windows desktop (7 or 10).
> 
> Ideally, I would like to set up the user on their Windows 7/10 system so that they can "login" to the ubuntu system (say putty) - change working directory (to where desired) - run the script (on the ubuntu system) - and scp the file back to the windows desktop.
> 
> ("porting" the ubuntu script to anaconda(3) on the windows desktop IS possible (but it has not been as easy as I had hoped!) (django and programs like that do seem to provide a "GUI" to have python scripts run on ubuntu/systems - but the setup looks mysterious/complicated (to me anyway))
> 
> I stumbled onto "paramiko" - is that a possible answer?
> 
> Any suggestion/ideas would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> (I am perfectly willing to stick to 3.6.x, unless there is a clean/easy
> solution using 2.7.x)
> 
> krishnan
> 

An alternative to writing your own server app using django, though 
admittedly less exciting from a developer's point of view, could be
x2goclient/server (http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/start). That would be 
more like your putty suggestion, but a lot more user-friendly.

Wolfgang