Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but this seems unnecessarily hard. I'm trying to login to a Debian 12 box using RealVNC on Windows, and tightvncserver. I tried just setting things up using what made sense, doesn't work. RealVNC times out. Then, I tried following some guides including one from DigitalOcean (who always seem to have very good guides), but same issue, I get timeout errors. The guides usually get me to edit ~/.vnc/config, which is fine, but I'm not sure where they're getting it wrong.
The guides also usually assume XFCE, but I'm using Debian's default Gnome DE (weird why guides would assume anything other than the default, but whatever). They also assume you want to use an SSH tunnel, or even SSL certs, but I don't really care for extra security, this is all on my LAN. So I completely ignore those steps. I've tried opening port 5901 with ufw, though, which is one step I usually don't see.
What am I doing wrong? Why is this so hard?
I'm open to using something other than tightvnc, but RealVNC as the client is a must.
The guides also usually assume XFCE, but I'm using Debian's default Gnome DE (weird why guides would assume anything other than the default, but whatever). They also assume you want to use an SSH tunnel, or even SSL certs, but I don't really care for extra security, this is all on my LAN. So I completely ignore those steps. I've tried opening port 5901 with ufw, though, which is one step I usually don't see.
What am I doing wrong? Why is this so hard?
I'm open to using something other than tightvnc, but RealVNC as the client is a must.