From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishremote accessreˌmote ˈaccess noun [uncountable] a system that allows you to use information on a computer that is far away from your computer
Examples from the Corpus
remote access• This ability to share the desktop has many useful features, like allowing remote access to your office computer.• Auto-dialling and remote access is possible from touch-tone telephones and electronic mail and voice-mail functions may be incorporated at a later date.• There is also no character-based interface for remote access making it clumsy as a server.• The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem. 