Q: Screen Sharing, very confused...

I'll just bump this one time to see if anyone can help?

This article says you can do it over the internet also*

http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2011/08/03/setting-up-the-vnc-server-in-mac-os-x-10-7 -aka-lion/

I have made sure the VNC option is active, but I still dont understand how to initiate a connection - eg* how do i get up a box that i can enter an ip or domain?

For a local network where would this be? I dont see anything obvious.

Thanks, thats helpful.

But I still dont understand because after following those steps at the bottom of the page it says*

Begin sharing your screen

1. In the left sidebar of a Finder window, click the disclosure triangle next to Shared to expand that section.
2. Click the computer you want to use, and then click Share Screen.

But I do not have any "shared" option in my sidebar even though all those options are ticked in finder prefs.

Perhaps this means that it MUST be the same Apple ID on both computers? Surely not?

OK, thank you. Well found.

That is kind of daft IMO, all that effort to connect computers & then you cant do it to another account. Its like they took a 3rd party app for networking & crippled it.

Anyway, thanks for helping coolc. I appreciate your effort & time  :-)

Lion feels a little bit like the move from OS9 to OSX these days; nice to look at, but way behind what we had before - I just hope we dont have to wait to long to get things back on track.