Help for a Mac newbie please!

Hi all,
I just got my lovely MacBook Pro yesterday... and could use some help with these 2 problems...
1 - on my Windows PC I have a VPN connection to 1 of my clients. When I tried to set it up on the Mac it's asking for an IPSEC shared secret? Is there any way to disable this requirement, or does my client have to set a key on his server?
2 - I am having a problem connecting to my windows laptop through my home network...if I enable the Guest account on windows XP, the MacBook connects no problem. If however [as I really want to] I try to connect as a "proper" user with username and password, the Mac keeps telling me the username or password is wrong...which it definitely isn't!
My thought is regarding the "domain"...I don't have one set up at home...just a workgroup called "home"...so when I try to login I am only typing in the username...the tooltip for the usernae field says domain\username...do I need to put anything here for domain, and if I do, what...as there isnt one!
Thanks,
Nige

Try my post
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> I have been asked to set up a Labview program
to graph and log
> thermocouple temperature measurements from two
Keithley 2001 Multimeters
> and a DC voltage from HP 34420A nano Volt/Micro
Ohm Meter. All three are
> instruments are IEEE interfaced to a Windows 98
machine running Labview
> (version 5.0 I think.) I have a couple of
weeks to get the job done.
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I am an experienced C,
> Fortran, BASIC programmer but this graphical
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the experienced person who
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