Attaching to a remote desktop?

[Arjen Verweij <a.verweij@student.tudelft.nl>]

L.S.,

I'm looking for a mechanism to connect to a machine that runs Debian. My 
client (laptop) runs Debian SID. Basically I want some sort of VNC that 
will give me the desktop the user at the workstation is seeing, not a 
fresh one.

I only have experience with VNC/rdesktop to Windows machines, and didn't 
stop to think that it might not work the same way when the VNC server 
was on a Debian box.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Regards,

Arjen Verweij