Authentication can be enabled or disabled on the receiving end, so your PC can have it if it wants.
The connection itself does not have to be different. The DUN connection to a phone starts off as a serial connection, as if you had a serial cable to your phone, and then PPP is used to establish a TCP/IP connection over that. Basically the BT DUN profile is the same as the Serial Profile, and every PC should be able to support one of these. You can still use PPP to connect to a PC and you simply omit the modem dialup commands and instead use the PPP script for connecting to a PC as specified in the Bluetooth howto I wrote on the ZUG.
Alternatively, you can use the PAN profile to establish a TCP/IP connection as this is much more similar to a wireless ethernet connection. A howto for this is linked from my ZUG Bluetooth howto.
Either way, you end up with a TCP/IP connection which works in exactly the same way as a WiFi connection, so any instructions on syncing over WiFi should work exactly the same.
If your PC does not offer either Serial or PAN profiles, then either you have not enabled them or this is a defficiency in your Bluetooth adapter as not all adapters support all profiles.