VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
It is free! You can download it, use it, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Public License. Both binaries and source code are available from the download page, along with a complete copy of this documentation.
Logging in to a computer
running the Host
VNCViewer4.EXE
You can executed this directly
VNC/vnc-4_1_1-x86_win32.exe
Host program
Older VNCViewer3.EXE
If you cannot download EXE's from your browser here is
VNCViewer.Zip
Download then Zip file, then open and run VNCViewer.Exe
HOST program: for allowing
Remote to log in to your computer
(Requires uncompressing with WinZip, and some
additional setup)
To connect, just your browser, such as Internet Explorer and go to the IP address
(preferably static), such as: http://123.456.789.10:5800
Then enter the password you have assigned.
And here's your desktop through a browser!
If you need to do file transfer, you can do that separately through FTP.
Open an FTP connection to the same address, "123.456.789.10".
Log in with the username and password to gain access to the directory.