From: theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk   
      
   R.Wieser  wrote:   
   > A remark though. You cannot just plug an USB cable into both the RasPi and   
   > laptop and expect it to work : Both are hosts, and as such will not talk to   
   > each other.   
   >   
   > You would need a special USB host-to-host cable (with a hidden proxying   
   > 'puter somewhere in the cable), which needs to emulate a standard ethernet   
   > connection.   
      
   If you have a Pi 4 or 5, the  USB-C port is dual-role and can be configured   
   as a USB 2 device, where you can configure the Pi as a 'gadget' that appears   
   to the PC as a network, keyboard, mouse, serial or storage device, using a   
   regular USB-C cable (although you may need to power the Pi another way).   
   The same goes for the microUSB USB port on the Zeroes.  The 1A/3A models can   
   also do it but you need a USB A to A cable.   
      
   Theo   
      
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