Contact PC from PC or Mac (preferred) not on LAN

Question

I'm going to be doing the website for my church, which is where the server is, but I'd like to be able to access the files from home. Could I do this from my Mac? If so how? If not, how would I do it from my PC?

Answer 1

You need to set up a VPN, a Virtual Private Network, such as LogMeIn's free Hamachi2 to the server to access the files.

Description of a VPN:

A virtual private network (VPN) is a secure way of connecting to a private Local Area Network at a remote location, using the Internet or any insecure public network to transport the network data packets privately, using encryption.

Works on OSX as well as Windows.

See this how-to Lifehacker article:

Geek to Live: Create your own virtual private network with Hamachi