You don't need to setup a VPN, although a lot of folks including myself do
so, in order to use Remote Desktop. See this page for help...
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTrouble
shooting.html
If you do want to go the VPN route then Remote Desktop through a Secure
Shell (SSH) tunnel is quite easy to setup and use...
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html

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>I am trying to set up a connection from my laptop which runs XP Home to
> my Home Workstation whic runs XP Professional at home I have a wireless
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> Please help.