Remote Access

You could use Netmeeting's remote desktop feature. Works very well through firewalls, vpn and ras/dun. Are your clients static or dynamic?

We have been using PCanywhere, NetMeeting and thin client sessions for about a year now for remote management.
All run within VPN sessions.
Of the three, if I had to pick only one, I'd pick a thin client session (especially if you have only a dialup connection). PC anywhere would run a close second. Net Meeting works well for connecting to workstations.

1) I believe PCanywhere can work over NAT. There is an article explaining that in their KB on www.symantec.com

2) only router-based VPN (PPTP or whatever) will immediately help in your case. Using any NT-based VPN you will face the same problem: "how to run my VPN through NAT-enabled router?"

Check you router IOS doc for VPN features.

I have a network with the exact same setup.
we use a linux machine as a gateway/firewall and i just added a pptp server running Microsoft NT 4.0 sp6 and ras and the pptp protocol, I added the pptp server on the same level of the firewall which means that i have now 2 gateways to the internet and for security reasons I enabled PPTP filtering (and I think you should also do that) which disables the server from acting as a router/gateway to the internet the nic connected to the internet is assigned a public IP address and the one connected to the lan is assigned a private IP address and it just works fine.

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