I've been smoothly running a set-up where I develop using Spyder IDE on a Windows client connected to a remote IPython kernel running on a Linux server. (jupyter qtconsole works just as fine when Spyder works). I use SSH tunnel (Bitvise 3rd party in Windows, native ssh in Linux) to forward ports to my local clients.
The set-up has been working successfully with the Windows clients across two different Windows machines / OS versions / client library versions, yet trying the same with a Linux client simply fails to connect. I've used tcpdump on the Linux server to look at traffic going through the 5 ports used (shell, iopub, stdin, control, hb), and noticed that the Linux client sends different messages (even different sizes), and fails to connect, looping forever trying to connect. I'll paste here the first message for the shell port (seems to have most activity anyway) from the client to the server:
Windows client (the one that works):
0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86 dd 60 0d
0010 97 bd 00 28 06 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0020 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0030 00 00 00 00 00 01 b1 0a 13 25 93 64 45 7c 00 00
0040 00 00 a0 02 ff c4 00 30 00 00 02 04 ff c4 04 02
0050 08 0a 61 92 0f 72 00 00 00 00 01 03 03 07
Linux client (the one that fails):
0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 45 00
0010 00 3c 72 7c 40 00 40 06 90 5a 4a d0 d1 22 4a d0
0020 d1 22 a2 8c 13 25 fa 5a 5c b3 00 00 00 00 a0 02
0030 ff d7 38 14 00 00 02 04 ff d7 04 02 08 0a fc 08
0040 f3 b3 00 00 00 00 01 03 03 07