Want to hook two residential networks together

I want to hook up my houses network to my parents network (when needed). Is there a way I can do this with VPN or something. Both houses only have consumer routers.

I am running XP Pro (and have a Win98 server if that’s helpful) and my folks run XP Home.

I want to do this to get around VNC’s bad exterior security, I also want to so that the global drives are still accessible. This why my folks can still watch the movies I download. I intend to write a program that will transfer these movies to their own local machine, but it would be far better if I could use a network transfer rather than FTP or HTTP.

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