if your using WinCXP it has remote access built in. All you need to do is turn it on and then download the client.
These links tell you how:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsXp/u...moteintro.mspx http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10208 If you use Linux that coms with something called PuTTy. Its also available for Windoze as well. We use this extensively at work to access remote machines running linux from a winXp machine.