Connecting laptop to sever

[John]

Hi.

I have recently bought a new laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 installed.

Whilst it sees the internet through me (SuSE 10.0) server, and reads the 
DNS files thereon, it will not display my intranet pages or allow me to 
mount any of the server's drives.

What do I need to do to get my laptop talking with, rather than just 
through, my server?

Ultimately, I want to set up email and a VPN between the two computers 
but if they don't talk to eachother in the same room, I'm not going to 
get very far!

TIA

John