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Is there a way for a USB device to be seen by Windows 7 as a network device? Such as mapping an IP address manually to that USB device?

In this case, I have an android phone application (Remote Desktop) that should use a WIFI network to connect to the PC. For reasons beyond the boundaries of this question, using a WIFI network isn't an option. So I would like to simulate the existence of the device on the network by manually assigning the phone an ip address through USB.

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Is there a way for a USB device to be seen by Windows 7 as a network device?

Sure, when that USB device really is a network device, like a USB-Ethernet adapter or USB-wireless-Ethernet adapter. Certainly a USB flash drive cannot be assigned an IP address.

(This seems like some kind of problem for which you have come up with a "solution". But then there's a hitch in implementing the "solution"; there's this one detail. like "assigning an IP address to a USB device", that has to be worked out. Maybe there's really a better or simpler way, or maybe it's impossible. But you want to solve your indirect issue rather than the real issue.)

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I appreciate the answer, but I don't really see the point of the content between ( and ) in the second paragraph as regardless of the scenario I presented being a 'solution' or 'problem' or otherwise, my original question is still a question. If I had asked, what is '4 + 4', would you have answered '8, but why use +, why not just have 8 from the start?'. Again I appreciate the answer (the first paragraph). Cheers – Chris Oct 10 '11 at 10:36
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