How do I control my office mac throught the internet from home

I have a small office network with 5 computers.
The network is has internet access through a windows 2003 server PC. On the network I have 3 macs, one mac mini server running Filemaker Pro 11 which acts as a filemaker server for the other 3 Macs. When I am in the office I use my MBP with Remote Desktop 3.4 to access the server mac and work on Filemaker. I need to be able to access this from home through the internet.
How do I go about this. I don't have local Mac support where I live, and the IT people I use only know Windows systems.
Thanks
Abel

Thank you, the problem has been solved. I would think that the help screens of Remote Desktop can explain that better, but I managed to find the solution searching through the forum.
I had the IT guy open ports 3283 and 5900 on the router and then instructed the router to forward request to those ports to the internal IP address of the computer I want to controll.
In Remote Desktop I selected Scanner and the button Network Address and then entered the router's internet IP address.
RDP then picks up the computer I want to control and from there you just follow the prompts for password.
Prior to this and since posting my first message I tried out logmein and without any help I was able to remotely contol the other computer without getting anyone to set ports. However I think that Remote Desktop offers more features and is probably faster.

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