Linux/Unix remote login/admin from Windows question

[VladimirTherin]

Running into some systemic weirdness, though - minecraft or freenx, there's a hella delay (like 8-10 seconds) on initial connect. once we're logged in and talking, everything's cool, but that initial delay is killin' me.

Make sure the machines on both sides have entries for each other in their /etc/hosts ( or equivalent), sometimes initial hangs like this are because the server is trying to do a reverse dns check on the IP and its timing out, since its likely a private IP address.