OK, Downloaded OSXVCN And Want To Connect To My Neighbor's Mac, How?

Hi folks. I just downloaded OSX VCN for my iBooK G4, OSX 10.4.7 and want to connect to my neighbor's Mac with the same OS. She and I want to experiment and see if we can get this going. Does she download the same app I did? Am I the viewer or server?
Now, where and how do we configure our Macs to link up? Do we go into sys preferences and do all this stuff? She wants to see if I can run her Mac from mine and vice versa. We both have DSL, Wi_Fi, etc. We will use Safari right or Firefox and go to some website. Do we have to have a JAVA applet? Heard this somewhere. Anyway, I went to the VNC support site and I am totally confused on proper configuration. The FAQ and help deal is all over the place.
Now, my roommate has a PC laptop, Windows XP Pro and I want to try to do the same link up after I get the 2 Macs together. All this network stuff is a new thing for me, so I want to learn the proper and fastest way to configure.
Suppose one of my clients in Arizona wants me to check out their computer using VNC or someone wants me to tutor them with MS PowerPoint?
Does anyone have an easy step by step way to link up the computers?
Thanks for any help steve

OSX supports VNC by default. To configure it go to system PReferences>Sharing and check REmote Desktop. Then click on the Access PRivelages button. You may wish to make another user jsut for VNC. If so make that user and then come back here. Choose the user you want to give access and check VNC Viewers may control screen with password. And enter password. Click on ok. Then click the start button to start the service. For someone to connect to you you must now thier ip address or DNS nameYou would enter that into the client along with a username and password.
As for windows you can use VNC but it requires installing a VNC service on the machine to be controlled. Instead you can use Microsoft's REmote Desktop Client and have them enable RDC's on thier computer. However this can only be done with XP Profesional and Server editions of windows.. NOT XP home... Not sure about MEdia Center edition.

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