Thanks for all your help guys- I have finally got it working, albeit very slowly, using the enterprise edition of VNC server, and lots of playing around! Yay!

I would *love* to use rdesktop, but just could not get it working on my N800- every time I started it, entered some options and clicked on "save", it just exited the program. Hence trying the VNC route.

Now the next challenge is how I copy files from my PC to my N800 remotely- the VNC server says it's supported, but I have absolutely no idea how to make that work.

Again guys, my thanks. This is a brilliant forum with genuinely helpful people for us newbs to get up and running.

Update: rdesktop now works- I needed to forward the port in my router. I am just more and more impressed with this little device!