Access away from home

Hi
Im soon to be going away and would really like to be able to access my iMac at on my travels, what is the best way to do this? Screen sharing?
Advice would be gratefully received ,
Thank You

Depending on what service your friends have.
In System Preferences and NETWORK, You simply choose your method of connection, Wireless, Ethernet< or Internal Modem(Dial-Up).
Next many Internet Services require authentication and you need to check with your friends to see if this is the case with there connection, If not then you will just fire that baby up and log on.
Be sure you check with your friends, and make sure there isn't anything special you need to log on with.
Cheers Don

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