Remote login from home to work

Hey Guys,
I am sure this is the wrong place to post this question but i'll try anyway
I would like to connect to the machines at my office from my home - we are in the video/film post production business, and do a lot of CG rendering that can take days/weeks to render.
It would be great ti login from home to check how these renders are going - in case the software has crashed or needs some help of some kind.
I know these days it is possible to use the 10.5 Back-2-Mac stuff, but these work machines do not have .mac accounts. Also I would like to connect to the windoze machines as well.
I am guessing we would need remote desktop / VNC.
I went to a whatismyipaddress website and got an IP address for the work machine. When I tried to connect to it from home it just didnt work.
Is there some sort of thing I need to setup on the router at work?
Sorry I am sure this is completely the wrong forum to post in!
Thanks if you can give some tips
Adam

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