Will Home Sharing allow me to do this?

I'm traveling to Europe next week and I'm taking a netbook with me to use as a base for downloading pictures and videos and as a general USB charging station for my iPhone and other digital devices. I'd love to be able to install iTunes 9 on the netbook and bring over the library from my desktop so that I can listen to my music on my netbook while in Europe. Will Home Sharing allow this, or does it require having the the netbook currently on my home network in order to access songs that are on my desktop?
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Yeah - it doesn't like it when you try to sync to another system. It throws up all kinds of warnings about doing it too. Not to mention that it tries to purge iTunes libraries to replace them with the one on whichever computer you are on and so on - basically its far more mess than it needs to be.
But I often plug my iphone into my netbook for the sole purpose of recharging the battery. When it comes up on my netbook and tries to sync, I just hit cancel. It will still recharge the iphone without syncing it.
Just on a side note, if you DO sync it with both, they will not talk to one another - even with home sharing - so if something crashes, you will have to go back to whichever computer you sync'ed (sank?) to last.

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