Remote Access to Windows Small Business Server System via VPN

Same old story: I use macs at home but I want to be able to connect to our small company Windows network over the internet to pick up and put down files.
Said company network consists of a server running Microsoft Small Business Server and Exchange. The data sits on some network drives (Z: etc, you know the sort of thing).
I've sorted out email access - I just connect to the Exchange Webmail interface and do all that using a web browser at home.
Now for data: well, I have successfully connected to our company network using VPN PPTP by following the guidance in Pogue's Missing Manual. The VPN window reports that I am connected to ip 192.168.0.150 which our network guru tells me is the address of the "Internal virtual network adapter on the VPN." The actual server PC with the data on it is at .100.
Now, he's a great guy and everything but is definitely a Microsoft man only. When I asked him how to browse our network files on the server he told me to set up a network share using Windows explorer.
So..can anyone please advise how I can translate that action into OSX land? I have searched the Apple support papers but with no success. These days most hits for VPN concern the blessed iPhone....
I have tried in the finder running connect to server and typing in smb://servername. That returns error code -36 "the finder cannot complete the operation because some data in [that address] cannot be read or written". I have tried using the company lan IP address for the server instead and that returns "name or password is not correct".
I appreciate these things often depend completely on the fine details of our setup. If nothing else, does anyone know a good book to assist here - Pogue is a great basic guide but not really detailed enough for this sort of thing. Failing that, how do I find out what error -36 means? Ta.
Message was edited by: Matt McGrath bis

For error -36, might try this...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301580
For stubborn Mac<->Windows® problems...
http://www.thursby.com/products/admitmac.html
Other solutions...
http://www.thejackol.com/2005/09/21/os-x-and-windows-server-2003-file-sharing/

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