TightVNC From Windows 7 to XUbuntu

[Alm865]

Hi All,

I am new to Linux and am having trouble setting up VNC on my new XUbuntu installation. I basically want to Remotely control the computer as you do in Windows RDP.

I am using XUbuntu 9.10 and am trying to connect from a Windows 7 Machine Using TightVNC viewer.

So far I have spent about half a day looking on the internet trying to work out my problem. Most of the solutions tell you to edit a file, and in all but one of the solutions the files do not exist. The only solution that made any sense was this one: skullbox.net/vncserver.php. I did exactly what it said and now I don't even get a terminal window when I VNC in, all I see is a blank grey/hatched window, I have attached a picture of what I see.

I can quite easily putty in and log on as root user e.t.c., but I want to see the desktop as you do in RDP.

Does anyone have any solutions?

Thanks in advance.

[Alm865]

Screw it. All the info I found on the web doesn't help, there always seems to be a step that I can't do because the menu doesn't exist or a command doesn't work, and no-one seems interested to help on this forum.

I'm cutting my losses on XUbuntu and just installing regular Ubuntu, from what I have been reading it has most of the remote desktop stuff inbuilt.

Unfortunate because XUbuntu runs so beautifully on my old and tired Laptop.

[Alm865]

Whooo! Ubuntu's Remote Desktop works straight away! Awesome...