connecting win7 to ubuntu through VNC

[bennyhay]

Hi am using win7 trying to connect to a ubuntu box using vnc. I managed to get it working for me with the full gui viewable. Then one of my housemates played around with some display settings for the backround and all of a sudden vnd only comes up with a terminal.

I went into terminal and attempted to start gdm and got this output

root@ben-desktop:/home/ben# gdm start

** (gdm-binary:21376): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager

** (gdm-binary:21376): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out
root@ben-desktop:/home/ben#

my ssh works fine using putty. I have looked in my /etc/gdm/custom.conf and this is the contents:
have i got anything wrong in there or am i missing any statements?

[daemon]
RemoteGreeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdmlogin
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=ben
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=ben
TimedLoginDelay=10

DefaultSession=xubuntu

[security]
AllowRoot=true
AllowRemoteRoot=true
AllowRemoteAutoLogin=true
PasswordRequired=true

[xdmcp]

DisplaysPerHost=1

Enable=true
Port=177

Any ideas would be much appreciated. cheers

[bennyhay]

also when i try to run the vnc server with this code, i get the message server is already running

vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -pixelformat rgb565

when i look at ps -al to see processes i get this output:

F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
4 S 0 3214 3143 0 80 0 - 1159 wait pts/4 00:00:00 su
0 S 0 3221 3214 0 80 0 - 1148 wait pts/4 00:00:00 bash
4 S 0 3940 3861 0 80 0 - 1159 wait pts/0 00:00:00 su
0 S 0 3948 3940 0 80 0 - 1168 n_tty_ pts/0 00:00:00 bash
4 R 0 21419 3221 0 80 0 - 625 - pts/4 00:00:00 ps

so doesnt appear to be running

[LebLinux]

Hello, could anyone help connect to ubuntu 10.04 from windows 7 using vncviewer 4. I could connect but all I see is an empty display.
Here is the xstartup config file and the screenshot. I ran vncserver from the terminal as: vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16

xstartup file: http://pastebin.com/emANxMd8