I am completely out of my depth here, no experience with a Raspberry, but I have been looking at Raspberry Pi USB IP, see
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/v...p?f=36&t=36851 and other 'Raspberry Pi USB IP' google searches.
The idea is that the Pi forward it USB connections over the network (cable of WiFi) to a windows machine. The project has some sort of server on the Pi and a client on the windows machine, which makes the Pi's USB's locally available on windows.
I don't know how stable or reliable it is or what the limitations are.
cheers,
Bram