and enter the same information but change the IP from 127.0.0.1 to what ever IP you have. For me this is all I did and I have 10.04 on both. It works no problem. I have setup VNC Server as per the instructions above. I have not been able to run the script file at startup and I am using cron to start/stop. The VNC client is working now. However a number of admin tasks do not work as the "X-Authorisation" file cannot be found. Can this path be added to any of the setup files or is there a simple solution? Let's see... in OS X all I have to do is select the server I want from the Shared area of the Finder window (for local-network systems), click the 'Share Screen' button and enter my login credentials. Works first time, every time in my experience. This kind of arcane masochism is why I left Linux as a day-to-day desktop after 10+ years of use and evangelism. If your time and sanity are worth anything at all to you, you start looking for ways to make the tools you use to do your work get out of the way as much as possible so you can accomplish the mission you set out to. Digging coal to fire a furnace on which you forge blades with which to shave your yak is the historically pandemic Linux experience, and that's why proportionally fewer people are using it as a desktop system