college to home vpn (mac to windows) PLEASE HELP

[Burtonsnow9]

ok so in the fall, i will be going off to college but i will need to be able to work on my home computers from school.

-my home computers are both windows
-home router is a linksys wrt54gs
-have a dyndns.org account setup with router and working.
-i have a mbp

i need to know how to vpn to my home network so that i can then use Remote Desktop Client to connect to the computers.

what's the best way to vpn into my home network?

 

[italiano40]

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm

try this

 

[Burtonsnow9]

so is there anyway to test all of this if i'm still inside my home network? i know that sounds dumb but at the moment i just wanted to test it.

 

[italiano40]

so is there anyway to test all of this if i'm still inside my home network? i know that sounds dumb but at the moment i just wanted to test it.

try to connect another network outside of yours, but it should work

 

[Burtonsnow9]

ok so then i go to network preferences on my mac and make a vpn (pptp) connection.
-sever address is my dyndns address right?
-account name is the user name of the computer i'm connecting to?
-leave encryption set to automatic,

anything else i should do in the advanced menus?

 

[Burtonsnow9]

anyone know?