Sorry for the bad title (couldn't think of a better way to describe it)

I have a windows machine which I do development on. However, I have a new project which needs to interact with a linux system (executing linux commands etc.).

So, obviously I can't do development on my windows machine..and I don't wish to code on the dev machine, svn commit and then svn update it on the linux machine.

Is there a way where any changes I make on my dev machine will be quickly mirrored to the linux machine? SVN is not a very quick alternative and of course some changes will be very minor.

Any ideas? A network share I guess....but that's not very pretty (bit slow too).

As fellow developers I would like to know if you've been in a similar situation and how you've resolved it.

On a furthernote, I can't just install Ubuntu as my development machine and mirror the commands, applications etc. from the linux machine because it's a cluster 'master' machine and so therefore it has quite a special configuration.

Thanks guys!

EDIT: I've also thought about having web services on the linux machine and then just calling them from code thus seperating platform development dependency. What do you think about that too? thanks