It is even easy than you imagine it should be if you have version 3.0.
Set everything up in VP and select render. When the render dialogue
comes up select the network queue instead of disk. Check your
advanced rendering docs. Then put the machine in slave mode from the
Network pull down menu. The queue takes over and renders whatever
jobs you have set up in the Net Queue. This is an over simplification
<g> but it works great.
Of course if you have render from the command line, you will find
instructions detailing that in those same docs. Hope this gets you
started in the right direction.