Trouble Remotely file sharing

Trying to set up file sharing on a buddy's computer. We have everything set up on the host computer… but we're having trouble logging into it. tried everything without anything working, including some VNC viewers. any recommendations as to best ways to approach the problem?

Kind of light on details there.
When you say 'tried everything', can you be more specific?
For example, what protocol are you trying to use? AFP? SMB? NFS? something else?
Are the machines on a LAN or are you trying to share files over the internet?
If over the internet, have you configure port forwarding on the router to allow incoming connections to get to the machine that's acting as a server?
You mention VNC... Why? VNC isn't a file sharing protocol it's a screen sharing protocol, so are you trying to file share or screen share?

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