[NTLUG:Discuss] Secure connection between Linux and Windows over the Internet

[Leroy Tennison]

Have a situation where I need for my Linux PC at home to connect to a 
Windows 2003 Small Business Server over the Internet without 
compromising either machine.  I've thought about VNC and I guess that is 
a possibility, I haven't done enough investigation into RDP to know if 
that is a possibility and then there's a VPN which i think would use 
FreeSWAN on Linux and Routing and Remote Access on Windows.  There are 
SMC Barracade hardware "router"/firewalls (I have an SMC7004VBR, a 
slightly older version is remote) on both ends.

Can anyone make recommendations, point me to a good HOW-TO or suggest 
alternatives I haven't thought about?  Thanks for the input.