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.
