[jyl]

Okay, this is a question for you guys who know Windows, networking, and corporate IT.

In my office I have a desktop PC that is networked and thus sees the shared drives. I have administrator privileges on that desktop. That desktop has a single Ethernet port, which is used for the network connection.

I want to be able to connect a laptop to the desktop PC, in such way that the laptop will also see the shared drives and I would be able to use Windows' Offline File synchronization feature between that shared drive and the laptop. I have administrator privileges on that laptop.

(I can't simply plug the laptop into the network, since it is not officially supported by the corporate IT group.)

So, the solution I thought of was to connect the desktop PC and the laptop via a USB bridge cable in "network" mode.

Will this work? Or is it likely to be foiled by corporate IT security?