Connecting to a Wondows Server Network from Home

Hello All,
I am new to MAC (OSx)and this is the first time I will be connecting my new iMAC from home to my work network (currently accessing by Windows XP). My company uses Checkpoint Secure Client in terms of connecting and authenticating on my work network and I have been successful in getting this installed and connected. Unfortunately I cannot seem to connect to my shared folders and files. I also notice that I cannot ping the work file server. Is there a specific way to setup file sharing on the work network in order for the iMAC to see shared files or am I still missing something on my iMAC setup.
I realise that this could be any number of things but any info would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Paul:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
You are right - there are a number of things that would affect your connectivity!
This is rather bland advice, but the first step I would take would be to contact your company IT people for help. There could be firewall settings (among other things) that may be a problem. When I was working, I had a similar problem (very different configuration from yours). In my own case, I would have never connected without my organization IT people helping me (a lot).
Barry

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