For anyone that's following this topic. This issue has led me to investigate even further the cause of the problem. This is what took place:
1. Installed fresh SME 6.0.1
2. Installed fetchmail
3. Ran the latest spam assasin 7 clam av script
4. Installed Yum
This is what I done to resolve the issue:
1. Removed Yum rpm's
2. Executed signal-event post-upgrade
3. Executed signal-event reboot
4. Attempted to estabislish a PPTP connection still no go
5. Attemped to connect as admin no go
6. Removed e-smith-pptpd-1.10.0-02 & pptpd-1.1.3-3es2
7. Executed signal-event post-upgrade
8. Executed signal-event reboot
9. Executed rpm -Uvh
http://www.pagefault.org/download/e-smith/6.0/os/i386/pptpd-1.1.3-3es2.i386.rpm10. Executed rpm -Uvh
http://www.pagefault.org/download/e-smith/6.0/os/i386/e-smith-pptpd-1.10.0-02.noarch.rpm11. Executed signal-event post-upgrade
12. Executed signal-event reboot
13. Attempted to estabislish a PPTP connection still no go
14. Removed all users (except admin - built in) and added user "test" and while creating the user chose "VPN Client Access Yes".
15. Reset password
16. Executed signal-event post-upgrade
17. Executed signal-event reboot
18. Attempted to estabislish a PPTP connection as user "test" with default XP PPTP settings and it worked
19. Attempted to estabislish a PPTP connection as user "admin" with default XP PPTP settings and it worked
I read the forums inside out and there's a few people saying there's issues with the PPTP module in 6.x. Been using the same setup for number of clients and it has worked perfectly for all of them except one. Throughout the whole process it seemed like the SME server would not recognise the users as having PPTP access.
I hope my experience saves someone a couple of headaches !
Zoran