By remote, do you mean accessing an existing Express instance across something like pcAnywhere?
Are you working without the Management Studio?
If so, then you can launch a command window and use sqlcmd. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162773(SQL.90).aspx
(For discrete SQL logins, you can leave off the password flag and make it prompt you, so that the password will not be displayed.)