I am trying to run bitcoin-qt from my from ubuntu server onto my windows 7 machine. How do you do that?
You can't use bitcoin-qt as a RPC client.
Sorry to hijack the topic, grue, are you aware then of a bitcoin RPC client that could connect to a bitcoind running on a distant machine? It seems it exists for android, what about windows and linux?
bitcoind. Look at e. g. -rpcconnect=. (I haven't actually tried this.)