Accessing other Macs for free?

I have a friend who needs help with his Mac. I can't orally explain how to fix it. Is there any way, without purchasing any applications, to access the computer. If it was a Windows I wanted to access, I could use Remote Desktop Assistant from Mactopia.com, but how do I do it for Mac?
Answer needed ASAP thanks.

You will also need Chicken of the VNC too. Put the redstone stuf fon your mates machine and then run chicken of the VNC on your computer. Enter your mates IP, obviously you pal will have to either connect his mac directly to the web so you can access it via it's IP or put a port forward in his firewall / nat router.
None of that is too complex so don't panic.
Chicken of the VNC can be found here

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