Two Mac's one account

I have a G5 powermac at home and a G4 powerbook, I also have a .mac account. If I am out on the road and want to ichat with my powermac at home do I need another .mac account? or how can I video chat between both computers with the same .mac user account.
thanks

Hi Scott and Celest,
In iChat 2.x it was possible to Text chat from two loactions with the same screen name.
You tend , still, to get a text message from a Bot at the AIm servers if you login from two locations now even if you have enabled iChat 3.1 to do so (earlier versions are prevented).
However it has always been impossible to Video chat from two locations Logged in under the same name.
So yes. 2 Screen names needed.
6:37 PM Saturday; February 18, 2006

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