morgansrm,
Wow. Thanks for sharing that. It sounds like a great solution. I am hoping to ask you if you could expound a bit on it, e.g. give a lot more detail and step by step instructions as it was a little hard to follow. I don't think most people who read it are going to understand what you did.
Also, if you can use terminology for each computer so we are all talking the same language. Host = computer at office which you are logging into remotely. And, Remote = computer at home that is going to connect to the office.
Based on that terminology, it sounds as if you are mapped a network drive from your home to the office.
Definitely cool to use a VPN. Just wondering out of curiosity why tying up a computer would be detrimental when you are probably remoting in at night or do you have a lot of people who need to remote in after work?