Is it possible to establish a VPN for road warriors using XP home and a machine running win2000 pro

Hi,

I work for a small company that has a number of field technicians and
a small central office. The field technicians use laptops running
windows xp home edition. Most of the techicians connect to the
internet via wireless connections (D-Link DI-524's being the most
popular at the moment) The computer in the office is a Dell Precision
650 running Windows 2000 Professional.

Is it possible to establish a VPN using this equipment / operating
systems?

I've attempted to connect using the "Incoming Connections" in 2000 and
the "Connect to a network at my workplace" option in the New
Connection Wizard (XP Home). (If so I've just got something
misconfigured) When I try to connect, the process stalls for several
minutes at the "Verifying user name and password" dialog, then
eventually reports "Error:721 the remote computer did not respond..."

I understand that XP Home isn't designed to authenticate against a
domain, but would that cause this error?

If that option isn't workable, can Open VPN be used to establish the
connection? I don't understand the difference well between the two
technologies, but if OpenVPN uses ca certificates for authentication,
would that circumvent the issue of trying to get XP Home to log in to
the "server".

Thanks in advance,

.

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