Part 1.Adobe Dreamweaver on Windows pairing with Ubuntu LAMP

We have built two PCs and linked them together with a network switch. One PC has windows and adobe creative cloud, including dreamweaver, the other PC has Ubuntu. The network switch is also connected to the home broadband router, for now.
We are trying to get a client server architecture going in this now small development network.
The idea is to get things to such a state were the Adobe Dreamweaver can as we continue to develop and update newer and newer versions of the website inside of a test web build and deploy.
well thats the idea.
However I fear that this will get complex. It looks like we will have to upgrade the ubuntu to a ubuntu server and create a bunch of stuff at the layer of complexity up above the one we are working on here and then join the widows PC to the then created ubuntu server domain. Also looks like there will be a need for an encrytpion certificate and SSL/SSH to be setup between the two PCs.