When I connect to my ubuntu server I use putty, I login with the normal user then switch to root as you can see below
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login as: xxxxx
xxxxx@192.168.x.xxx's password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.38-14-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/[/url]
New release 'oneiric' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
Last login: Sun Aug 26 22:48:33 2012
xxxxx@ubuntu:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for xxxxx:
[COLOR='#FF0000']root@ubuntu[/COLOR]:~#
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I only edited my username and server ip in that and as you can see im logged in as root
Have you tried putty ? if not you can get it here > Download PuTTY - a free SSH and telnet client for Windows
