Connecting to a Cisco 1841 at work from home

Ok.

We have an 1841 router that we use at the office. A VPN is set

If I have that router there, what would I need at a

If you want to join your Home PC to the Windows AD Domain, then the VPN

So, yes - you will need a Router at your Home to maintain connectivity.

I am sure this would be a long response so general theories

So it can be any old router that can connect via vpn? We use the cisco client here at work so how would that information get to the router?

You would need to configure the router. Your best bet would be to ask whoever maintains your 1841 what settings you need to put into your router to establish a VPN connection.

In a nutshell

A second router with a static IP. Make sure your LAN addressing does not clash with your office.

Then you establish a VPN between the two. Then your create appr> Let me start off my saying I am new to this and I'm just curious about

If this is a windows domain, you can always just use RRAS on the windows servers. Set up a PPTP connection through RRAS and have windows dial it up on login, at home.