[Kate]

....anyone with a working installation?
My impression is: This never works. Has it ever for anyone?

So far I tried every existing VPN client for Panther. Most of them don't even connect, Apples own times out, and the single one that seems to establish at least something (VAPORSEC) just sits there and no remote devices are accessible.

This is while I already have a working VPN between our PCs here, connecting the whole remote network to the base network.

[larkost]

Apple's VPN configuration tool is client only. You have to have a VPN server setup to connect to. That server can be running either L2PT over IPSEC, or PPtP (Microsoft's VPN protocol). If you are trying to go peer-to-peer, then I would recommend looking into OpenVPN.

If you are talking about MacOS X Server, then I gave up on their VPN setup tool (on documentation, no obvious), and setup a devil-linux box to be our server.