VPN between Mac and Windows? share printer and USB drive

Hey everyone, I'm out at college and have a Windows SP2 desktop set up in my room with the printer and our external hard drive. I travel around campus with my macbook pro (10.5), and it'd be really nice to access the printer and my external hard drive.
Problem is that since its a huge vast network, I think its near impossible to do a direct "IP" connect to it. So the next option is to use a VPN, which I have experience with Windows and Hamachi, but I have no idea how to incorporate a VPN between a mac and a windows computer.
Thanks!

Hi Eric and welcome to Discussions and the Apple world.
Mac OSX can read and write from Windows partitions (like the BootCamp Windows partition you are about to create) when using FAT32 as file system for Windows.
However with FAT32 you are limited to a partition size of 32GB.
Mac OSX can also read from Windows partitions that uses the NTFS file system, but it can not write to them unless you use a third-party helper like either Paragons NTFS for Mac http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ or NTFS-3G http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Windows can not even see or use a Mac OSX partition without additional help by MacDrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
Regards
Stefan

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