Connecting to Windows Network via VPN

[Bill Polhemus]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Is the pptp connection giving you access to the rest of the
> network behind the connection, and is the server you
> want to access on the same subnet or do you need additional
> routing?  Start by trying to ping the remote ip address.
>   
I can ping the remote address (which I ASSUME is a gateway), but I have 
no idea how to "get access to the rest of the network." Perhaps I can go 
to the Windows machine, and see if I can figure out the IP number of one 
of the machines on the other side. I notice that I am assigned an IP 
number in the 10.xxx.xxx.xxx private address space, according to the 
PPTP client's output, so I must be "in."

As I said, the way this HAS been working from a Windows client is, I 
connect via VPN, then bring up the Remote Desktop Client, and type in 
the machine name (I guess that's a NETBIOS name) for the host I want to 
run Remote Desktop on, and it comes up, I log into that desktop and work 
remotely. When I'm finished, I log off the desktop, then disconnect the VPN.

I assume that's the way it ought to work through the Linux client as 
well--although the HELP file on KRDC (the KDE Remote Desktop Client) 
doesn't really talk about Windows.