works well on my ubuntu machine. I had some confusion over the ip address needed to configure vlc-remote on my n900, so i'll post how to do that for ubuntu:

from your ubuntu machines terminal use "ifconfig", which will show you a list of the network interfaces available on your machine. use the "inet addr" of the interface you are currently connected to the internet via (should start with 192.) as the "Ip:" address in the configuration for vlc-remote. the rest of the setup is as explained in the initial post of this thread. thanks again for this app, it's really useful.