Trying to VNC to parents' Snow Leopard from my 10.5.8

I'm on my laptop at my parents' house trying to set up remote management of their new iMac so when I leave here I can help them with stuff. I'm having trouble making a VNC connection. I have Screen Sharing turned on on their iMac. I did CMD+K and browsed for their machine and found it, and it asks me to enter a name and password to share their screen. I entered my password for my own computer, and that didn't work. I entered the password for their machine, and that didn't work. What am I doing wrong? Right now I'm online wirelessly through their router, don't know if the fact that we're on the same router is causing a problem.
Any thoughts?

Is the firewall or any security software running? Can you access shared files? Are you both on the same internal network, something like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x? You should be on the same network.
You can test that vnc is listening on the iMac- from your mac run this Terminal command:
telnet IPAddressofiMac 5900
If that connects, it's running.
To access from outside their network set the iMac to a static internal IP, then in the router, forward port 5900 tcp to the iMac, then you would connect thru the external IP address of their router. The setup of the router varies a bit among different models but usually you just go into the web interface of the router (i.e. http://192.168.1.1, if that were its address,) and look for port forwarding, port triggering, or NAT. Take note of the external IP of the router and use that to connect from outside. Of course this assumes it's working at all.
Another thing you might consider is using logmein.com. It takes about 5 minutes to setup free remote access, fully bypassing any setup in your router. I like to use the Hamachi VPN tool from logmein but their regular screen sharing is the simplest.

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