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Set up a VNC server on Ubuntu
TigerVNC and Xfce on loopback, reached over SSH, started at boot.
VNC on a Raspberry Pi
Switch on the built-in server and connect from another machine.
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Read the bind address with ss before you touch the router: a loopback-bound VNC listener plus an SSH local forward makes your SSH accounts the access list for the desktop.
VNC implementation maintenance: which servers still ship fixes
VNC implementation maintenance for TigerVNC, TightVNC, UltraVNC and x11vnc: the package your distro ships, not the upstream release page, decides what your host has.
Running VNC commercially?
RealVNC Connect is the commercial VNC from the team that created the protocol, with end-to-end encrypted sessions and multi-factor authentication built in.