What is the best way to remotely access a MacBook ?

I would like to access the MacBook of my daughter from my own MacBookPro,
much like Screen Sharing offers, so that I can occasionally help her accomplish stuff by just showing on her MacBook.
The challenge here is that she lives in a different city.
I have tried Screen Sharing, of course, but that seems to work only when both client and server are in the same network.
I was reading about Chrome Remote Desktop, but that seems to work only on iOS on the client side, not on a MacBook.
I tried some VNC apps, but again somehow failed.
I will appreciate all kinds of hints and suggestions.
Best regards,
Gabriel.

Yosemite in not required in any way. The latest articles simply cite the latest Mac OS X.
I expect this would work as far back as 10.6.8, possibly even older. [The hatter's article cites support as far back as 10.8 Mountain Lion.]
A mis-match between the Mac OS X version running on the two computers should cause no problems whatsoever.
If the IP Address of the shared computer is in these PRIVATE [non-Routable] ranges, a change to Router configuration will be required:
RFC1918 name
IP address range
number of addresses
largest CIDR block (subnet mask)
host id size
mask bits
classful description[Note 1]
24-bit block
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
16,777,216
10.0.0.0/8 (255.0.0.0)
24 bits
8 bits
single class A network
20-bit block
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
1,048,576
172.16.0.0/12 (255.240.0.0)
20 bits
12 bits
16 contiguous class B networks
16-bit block
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
65,536
192.168.0.0/16 (255.255.0.0)
16 bits
16 bits
256 contiguous class C networks
table courtesy wikipedia.org

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