We recently set up a Cisco VPN using a Cisco ASA 5510 Security Appliance (Firewall). The VPN works great for Internet connectivity. The problem is we can see no network assets. No shared drives etc. I am confused on how this is supposed to authenticate with our PRIVATE network. I could go through a list of ping options but when we try to ping our server or anything on the inside of the private network the ping fails. I have tried the VPN setup wizard in XP and it does not provide us with authentication. We start the Cisco VPN software and it shows the VPN connected, we can connect to the internet but have no access to our network assets file server etc... The Cisco engineer says once this VPN is established, you use remote desktop to access the network. We are not comfortable with that because of the security issues we are operating under (Bank). I would be interested to see if anyone has set one of these up and how they authenticted from the VPN client on a public connection to a Private LAN. VPN running Cisco client is an XP machine our server is running Windows Server 2003. Any help would be appreciated.