How to mount home mac HD drive from remote?

I would like to be able to access my home mac from the road as i will be away. Ideally i would like to be able to mount any of the drives on my home computer so they appear on my desktop. How do i set this up and then how do i test it?
I do not have a mobileme subscription. The home computer is running 10.6 but the machine i will be accessing it from afar will be running 10.7.
I am not so interested in being able to control my home screen, I just would like to be able to view, open, copy the files on that machine.
I am thinking, is there a way to use the 'connect to server' feature? If so, what do I type there?
Any suggestions much appreciated.
Thx
Felix

I am thinking, is there a way to use the 'connect to server' feature? If so, what do I type there?
The problem here is 2 fold. First you have to find your home computer, as your ISP most likely uses DHCP dynamically assigned IP addresses, so one day you could a.b.c.d address, and the next you could be q.r.s.t address. This can be worked around using a dynamic DNS name from a service such as No-IP.com or DynDNS.org.
Second, you have to get through your home router. That involves configuring it for port forwarding of port 5900 for Screen Sharing and 548 for file sharing to your home Mac <http://portforward.com>
Once you get that all working, you would use Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server...
vnc://dyn.dns.name.or.ip.address.of.you.home.mac
afp://dyn.dns.name.or.ip.address.of.you.home.mac
VNC for screen sharing
AFP for file sharing.
NOTE: This connection is NOT secure. You can encrypt your screen sharing connection, after you make your first screen sharing connection by changing the Screen Sharing -> Preferences -> Encrpt all network data.
However, I do not think the is an option for encrypting your file system data via the afp://address method.
Oh yea, and since this now exposes well known ports directly to the internet, you should make sure you have a very secure password on your home system. Longer is better. <https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm>

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