abkrishna
August 1st, 2008, 09:09 AM
Hi all,
I don't know if this is even possible (especially without administrative privs on the machine connected to the network), but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction:
Is it possible to share another computer's internet connection over USB? It seems like it ought to be in the general sense, but I haven't been able to find good info on how to do it, and don't know enough about how USB works to even know if it can be done. To be clear, the scenario I'm thinking of here isn't a USB home network, but rather borrowing the internet connection of a public computer (or perhaps an office computer). Something along the lines of this:
1) Connect a USB cable between your laptop and a public computer. Run software on your laptop to configure the USB port so that it comes up as some sort of data transfer device as far as the other computer is concerned.
2) Run a portable app or something on the public computer which acts as a router, taking data from the USB connection and feeding it into the real internet connection the public computer has, and basically performing NAT functions.
3) The software on your laptop that set up the USB port further configures it as a network device locally, so that the rest of the OS just treats it as one and everyone is happy.
Would love to hear if solutions like this already exist, or even if there are resources that might get be started is trying to create such a thing. Didn't see this already in a forum search, so sorry if it is actually a repeat.
Thanks!
I don't know if this is even possible (especially without administrative privs on the machine connected to the network), but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction:
Is it possible to share another computer's internet connection over USB? It seems like it ought to be in the general sense, but I haven't been able to find good info on how to do it, and don't know enough about how USB works to even know if it can be done. To be clear, the scenario I'm thinking of here isn't a USB home network, but rather borrowing the internet connection of a public computer (or perhaps an office computer). Something along the lines of this:
1) Connect a USB cable between your laptop and a public computer. Run software on your laptop to configure the USB port so that it comes up as some sort of data transfer device as far as the other computer is concerned.
2) Run a portable app or something on the public computer which acts as a router, taking data from the USB connection and feeding it into the real internet connection the public computer has, and basically performing NAT functions.
3) The software on your laptop that set up the USB port further configures it as a network device locally, so that the rest of the OS just treats it as one and everyone is happy.
Would love to hear if solutions like this already exist, or even if there are resources that might get be started is trying to create such a thing. Didn't see this already in a forum search, so sorry if it is actually a repeat.
Thanks!