Remote connection

[Katherine Goude <katherine goude baesystems com>]

I'm very new to CORBA and ORBit but just wanted a bit of general
information. I'm wanting to run a client program on my laptop and a
server program on a robot (connected via a wireless network). I've
written a few basic ORBit client/server programs just to practice and
have had them communicating while both running on my laptop. They do
this by the server writing the IOR string to a file which the client
program then reads so it can then find the object.
I can't use this method over a network so what other methods are there?
I've heard about using GOAD but doesn't this requires that both machines
are running gnome? The robot is not running gnome - it has a limited
amount of memory so I want to keep the facilities on it to a minimum.
Also I'm confused as to how remote clients/servers work with ORBit in
general. Do you need to give the IP address of the server at some point?
If any of you know of a good webpage to explain this I'd appreciate it.

Sorry to bother you with such basic questions!
Katherine