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I got it to work. Check this out http://coddswallop.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin-complete-vnc-server-setup/

Ok I finally got it to work connecting directly with VNC Viewer. I'm still working on using SSH tunneling.

But now when I connected with the VNC Viewer for the first time I got the terminal...

Thanks for the suggestion SlugSlug. Like I said I'm a beginner at Ubuntu/Linux

What are the steps to setup VNC over ssh

Also I can telnet to port 22 but not 5900

I installed sudo apt-get install nmap

Ran this command nmap -v -PN <host>

These are the results and it appears that port 5900 is there but state is closed. How can I open the port?

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Thanks for helping but it is not working yet...

vnc4server was not installed. After installing and starting vncserver it prompted me to enter a password which all worked fine

Then...

I'm a beginner to Linux/Ubuntu (I know windows servers very well) and new to Amazon Web Services as well. I have deployed an instance of Ubuntu 12.04 on AWS.

I successfully ran this command to...