Connecting to Windows Network via VPN

[Bill Polhemus]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Depending on what you are
> trying to do on the office machines you may be better off
> setting up a server with terminal services or leaving an
> XP desktop set up for remote access and connecting via
> rdesktop.  This lets you run all the local apps remotely
> instead of copying files and working with them under
> Linux.
>   
Well, that's actually what I want to do. However, I can't figure out 
rdesktop either--why is it that Linux software is typically SO poorly 
documented? I've looked everywhere for a How-To, or similar, on rdesktop 
and find NADA.