Screen sharing without a monitor?

I've tried breifly and it didn't work but essentially I'm wanting to share the screen of a mac mini that has no screen?
I'm planning on having the mac mini in a fairly inaccessible place but would like to use it by sharing the screen on a Macbook Air or Pro.
Any ideas?

I too do this all the time with my Mac mini. I can use both the built-in Mac OS X Leopard Screen Sharing (Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server -> vnc://mac.mini.addr, as well as Chicken of the VNC and JollysFastVNC.
I connected keyboard, monitor, mouse just long enough to enable System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Management, and the VNC password. After that I removed the keyboard, monitor, and mouse.
What are your System Preferences -> Security -> Firewall settings? Is it possible that the firewall is blocking your attempts to start a screen sharing session?
Another approach is using the iChat screen sharing in conjunction with the Chax add-on for iChat and enabling the Chax auto-accept requests for remote screen sharing from a specific buddy. AOL Instant messaging accounts are free.

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