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So, what I need to do is: 1. VPN from SuSE into a W2K network from home and browse resources on that network.
I cannot help you in detail here, but you have to choose how to do this VPN. Do not use pptp (it is weak, so not so private!), I would choose between ipsec (freeswan is the most common IPsec implementation, but searching in google I have found some docs to have IPsec for Win2K) and cipe (http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html). Both have some pro and cons, but I can help you in detail with this as I did not do this yet!:-) Note: I am supposing you have full access to those Win2K machines!
2. Share files between my desktop at home (while it is booted into Linux), and a laptop at home running W2K.
Sharing and browse Windows resource from Unix: samba is what you need. It is quite easy to set up and quite well documented. Praise