Yes eMacs is running on my local laptop.

If I try running eglot on a local file (on my laptop) all is well - it immediately finds the language server binary and runs it fine.

However, if attempt it on a remote file (opened over tramp) it says it can’t find the binary and prompts me to point it at it. I could do that, but then the language server would start on that same machine and that’s a no go since it’s a shared login machine.

So ideally I’d be able to tell it to use a language server running on my laptop but have been unable to get that to happen.

That would work. However, it would be a pretty dodgy thing to do from a security perspective. Since this is a work related query, I am pretty hesitant to do that.