[General Topics] S0AndS0:
Well they could be a bit baffled for a minute; running Linux on Android is still kinda not main stream yet, if you're posting on one of there help forums be sure to explain that this is very (almost identical) close to running Linux on Raspberry Pi.

Likely the password wasn't set unless you set it previous to trying to connect, next time try setting the root password under the debian/shell with the "passwd" command, then use "root" as the username and the new password as the password. Sometimes the first connection will fail and just re-running (as insane as it may sound) without modification will work on the second attempt. Also on the first successful connection things will take a minute to get going but will speed up once everything is settled down.

Perhaps, but the setup is almost identical to setting up VNC likely it's just an issue with not having a password set or just needing to re run the connection attempt more than once after the first connection attempt or after a reboot of the Android device or Linux OS, not sure why but every now and again this happens to me too.

Response to Update; wow you're doing great :thumbup: it's been awhile sense I've been able to use vnc but yes it'll run a little slower than rdp, furthermore if you're running the default jre from apt-get to run money dance then this will be another slow down because the default jre from repo is likely an open soft float version. Instead try running as much with hard float as possible; such as choosing hard float for Linux install and hard float for Java by building from source. I've written a few scripts to install soft float version 7 headfull but if you want to play with hardfloat then the bellow link

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javase/index.html

-and choose

ARMv6/7 Linux - Headful EABI, VFP, HardFP ABI, Little Endian1

Then pull up the script I wrote and modify the commands to reflect the difference in versions and try running them one by one in a terminal windows (it may seem tedious but it beats trying to modify the script and debug it on your own) or reference the guides commented within the script to understand what's going on and why.

On the notes with user interface: I normally will run without compression when connecting locally, set the mouse to touch pad instead of directly related to the physical screen, and change the resolution to just a bit smaller than my screens physical screens' resolution. There's likely ways of tweaking the interface on the Linux side too, just try pulling up the help or man pages on the Linux packages in the command line.

RDP will act very similar to VNC in that both will get you GUI I've found a preference for RDP for my uses but if VNC is working out fine don't worry to much on testing :)

Update 02052014- been going through my scripts for installing Java from source and fixing the errors. Now have Java on my myTouch and the money dance software downloaded, and will be testing tonight. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have good news for you :)

Update 02062014- no good news just yet. I followed the instructions to put a system link to java in the extracted directory and running the installer script but then it just hangs. Also tried running the moneydance jar file directly with "java jar" command and nothing seems to happen... I'll dig through the installer and see what I can read.

Sent from either my SPH-D700 or myTouch3gs or M470BSA

Guide for running Linux on Android that I'm writing:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2240397