During our Big Data lab sessions, we use PuTTY and WinSCP to connect to the Hadoop cluster. This solution cannot be accomplished from students with a Linux/MacOS device, as these programs are not available outside Windows.
On live sessions, it is easy to do this using Guacamole; but if you want to use Spark outside of lab hours, different solutions are required.
As I'm following lessions with a MacOS device, I was searching a rapid solution to do this, without installing too much external software. I found a way to go using ssh and scp via terminal (tested with bash or zsh), that are pre-installed into the majority of MacOS and Linux systems.