Thanks rcs1000. Luckily for me i'm the admin to the windows server i was attempting to connect to. I could see the logs at both ends!

We should be thankful to Big Phat Jan for taking the time to document the procedure.

max_power - That is a useful script especially considering my network vodafone uk block VPN access and i can only get on via wifi.

Has anyone actually made this a working solution? I find my n900 is unusable whilst connected to the VPN. I can't even multi task - i get this weird overlay problem with the menu and any other app i attempt to switch to is immediately sent to the background.