I have the VPN connected...how to access services?

Ok so I activated the VPN service on the server (snow leopard server), and have successfully connected to it from a machine running Lion. Now what?
I would like to access network shares on the file server, and be able to access vnc screen sharing and so forth. Yet nothing shows up in the network browser etc. What am I missing?

This has been discussed many times.... the Network Browser only looks at the local network. It knows nothing about (and does not look across) the VPN connection.
To access resources over the VPN use the Finder's Go -> Go to Server menu and enter the appropriate hostname of the remote (VPN-protected) service. This does, of course, mean that you need to know the hostname (or IP address) of the server in question.
There are ways of configuring Network Browser to work, but it's non-trivial in most cases.

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k8freeman wrote:
My question is even more basic than this. I can see on the network applications screen that I am connected, so where do I go from there? I don't know the security protocol.
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PS: Your IT department is hopeless.

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