network rendering via internet

Is there anyway to setup network rendering via internet? I have some friends and family members who leave their computer on all the time with cable modems. Is there an easy to set way this up?

I could send a everyone a .blend file specifying what frames to render. Then they’d have to send me the output. I think that would be too inconvinent for some.

For a big project I think this would be my only option.

i just thought it would be cool if there was a Blender project similar to Seti@Home and Genome@Home where users can contribute their idle time. Electric Sheep Screensaver is a good example.

https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26437&highlight=internet+rendering

That was the second thread I found when I did a search on “internet” AND “rendering” … got 53 hits … the power of search.

Hope this (and the search) helps.