VNC - help please?

[Stan_Lite]

I want to set up VNC for my Folding farm as I run most of the rigs headless and it would be handy to be able to VNC into them instead of having to attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse everytime I want to alter anything. It'll also enable me to do stuff while I'm away.

I've had a bit of a go with UltraVNC but I can't get it to work. I've set up the sever on the rigs I want to monitor and have tried to access them via the viewer from the laptop. I've done the port forwarding thing on the router and switched off Windows firewall. I can't think of what else to do. I'm probably missing something obvious but never having worked with it before, I don't know.

I must say, the lack of an in-depth user guide and the sparse guides I've found on the interwb are a bit disappointing.

Can anyone provide me with a good tutorial or some advice? Are there easier VNCs to use? I had a brief look at TightVNC and it does look a little easier but I thought I'd ask for advice here before I started trying other software which may be just as tricky to set up and use.

Thanks in advance.