My webserver is up, firewalls are in firewalling, Remote Desktop works beautifully and Linux no longer seems so alien. Time to extend the learning curve:

At the moment, I use openSSh & Putty to establish a connection between my Mandrake 9.1 box and my WinXP Pro box. After logging in, I will start the Tight-VNC server manually by entering 'vncserver' at the prompt.

I then start up tightVNC client on my XP pro box, and all is good.

Once I am finished, I close tightVNC client, and back in bash, enter 'vncserver -kill :1' before closing Putty.

What I would like to do is automate the process:

1. After establishing a Ssh connection, I would like 'vncserver' to automatically run.
2. When the Ssh connection is disconnected for any reason, I would like vncserver to shutdown

Any ideas how I would go abouts in doing this?

- Scrawl