How to use Bonjour

Hi,
I have looked around the web for quite a while on how to link up my macbook and a windows pc for sharing my document etc;
From the look of things I can do this via Bonjour. So I've downloaded it to Windows and have it on my Mac. Now what do I do?
There is little direction of what to do at this point to start sharing. What should I do on my machines so that I can pass files easily?
Also, does Bonjour only owrk when running off the same network? The PC is my parents and I live away, but if I could still share files with them it would make things much easier. Can this be done?
Thanks

G'day,
Two questions here:
1) How to configure a Windows - OS X network (locally). There are several excellent guides available for this on the internet for Leopard (most of which is relevant for Snow Leopard). However the instructions vary according to the version of Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7).
A good guide from the OS X side of the fence is the Apple one: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549
A good guide covering everything for Windows Vista: http://macs.about.com/od/macwindows/ss/sharemacfilesvs_2.htm
A good guide covering everything for Windows XP:
http://macs.about.com/od/macwindows/ss/sharemacfilesxp_2.htm
2) How to setup screen and file sharing remotely. There are multiple ways of doing this, but the easiest from cross platform work is logmein or teamviewer.
Cheers,
Rodney
I hope this helps,
Rodney

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