Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

13.4. Dialing In from the Road

If you're one of the several million lucky people who have full-time Internet connections ”in other words, cable modem or DSL accounts ”a special thrill awaits. You can connect to your Mac from anywhere in the world via the Internet. If you have a laptop, you don't need to worry when you discover you've left a critical file on your desktop Mac at home.

Mac OS X offers several ways to connect to your Mac from a distant location, including file sharing over the Internet, virtual private networking, FTP, and SSH (secure shell). Chapter 22 has the details.