Remote Control another Mac?

I've tried to read up on this but couldn't quite grasp how to set it up properly, if anyone could offer any help?
I would like to use a Mac to control another Mac via the internet - i.e. by remote means.
The purpose is to demonstrate how to do something to another person, for instance, by moving the mouse on their screen to load iTunes or something similar - to show how to do simple procedures.

There are several, VNC client/servers like Chicken of the VNC, Timbuktu and logmein.com
http://cotvnc.sourceforge.net
http://www.netopia.com/software/products/tb2/
http://logmein.com

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If locally enable Screen Sharing on the Lion Mac, if remote try someting like LogMeIn...
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What would need to be set to allow a PC access?

If you have enabled remote access (ssh) and you have configure your router to allow incoming ssh connections to your mac then you could access your mac via a terminal something like Putty on your pc and turn on screen sharing via the terminal.
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As you have found via the answer provided by Morgan R, it is possible to configure Remote Management to allow standard VNC clients to connect just like it is possible with Screen Sharing.
Note: Remote Management does everything Screen Sharing does plug other things. So anything you can do via Screen Sharing you can do via Remote Management.
However there is a client available for Windows that does support the extended login information used by Remote Management/Screen Sharing, this is 'Remotix' by Nulana.
See http://www.nulana.com/remotix-windows/
I have tried it and it does work. I did however find one serious bug which I have reported to them but I don't know if they have fixed it yet.
Over the years I have found many in fact nearly all software that involves linking Mac and Windows where one controls the other in either direction has suffered an inexcusable bug whereby if you are not using US keyboards at both ends then several keys will not be mapped properly and you can even end up with some keys not usable at all. The most infamous combination is the @ and " keys being swapped.
All these programs appear to have been written by Americans who are members of the 'flat earth' society and obviously believe that if you leave the shores of the USA you will fall of the edge of the world. I presume they also are avid fans of the Discworld series of books.
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Note: Microsoft did at least fix theirs several years later with Remote Desktop Client 2.0 (for Mac).
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See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/vnc/ I am sure if it had been developed in Cambridge, Massachusetts it would have suffered the same problem. Since Screen Sharing on Macs is based on VNC it has never suffered this problem even when controlling a PC via VNC. I am therefore even more shocked that Nulana managed to make this mistake.
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EBSkater wrote:
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