No problem. I'd totally forgotten about that previous empeg board thread.

I have been using LogMeIn's remote control software for family members, though they recently made it a little more difficult with the free product.

I'm really liking the simplicity of Hamachi. I think I could have eventually gotten his network set up correctly, but I think it would have taken hours, whereas I had him set up with a VPN in about 10 minutes with this thing.

And thanks for the help on shares across workgroups. The only thing I have to figure out is how Hamachi hands out IP addresses. I'm hopeful that you can give static IPs to the VPN clients.