Hello, I am trying to establish a terminal server session with a windows 
2k server using rdesktop through a VPN. \

Steps taken so far

1. I installed the pptp client from http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/. 
This works fine. I can establish a tunnel to the pptp server. This is a 
linux box running sme server 5.6. It works great.

2. Pinged the pptp server using both its external and internal IP 
addresses. My local area network uses 192.168.2.xxx and the lan at the 
remote site uses 192.168.0.xxx .

3. Tried pinging other boxes on the 192.168.2.xxx remote network. This 
did not work.

4. Established a telnet session to the pptp server using it's internal 
ip address 192.168.0.1. (telnet set to only accept connections from 
within the lan. is this aceptable security?) From the pptp server I can 
then ping any box on its lan, but can not ping to any box on my lan.

5. installed rdesktop with no problem. When I try to conncect to the Win 
2k terminal server having IP address 192.168.0.10, through the tunnel, 
it won;t connect, eventually timing out.

 From the fact that I can telnet into the pptp server using its local IP 
address and then ping boxes on its subnet, I conclude that the tunnel is 
connected. I can not figure out why rdesktop isn't connecting. I have 
used rdesktop before but never though a VPN .

I hate to admit it, but the box that I am using locally for this dual 
boots and when I'm on the windows side, I can connect to the pptp server 
and establish a terminal server session that way.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Charlie Bullen