System and method for providing a virtual peer-to-peer environment

A method for establishing a peer-to-peer session between a real endpoint and a mapped endpoint, wherein the real endpoint is a first device configured to directly access a peer-to-peer network, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a shadow server, a login request from the mapped endpoint, wherein the mapped endpoint is a second device that lacks the functionality needed to directly access the peer-to-peer network;
• creating, by the shadow server, a virtual endpoint corresponding to the mapped endpoint;
• receiving, by the virtual endpoint, authentication information from the mapped endpoint, wherein the authentication information is needed to gain access to the peer-to-peer network by the virtual endpoint;
• sending, by the virtual endpoint, the authentication information to an access server in the peer-to-peer network to log the virtual endpoint into the network;
• receiving, by the virtual endpoint, a message from the mapped endpoint that is to be sent to the real endpoint;
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• sending, by the virtual endpoint, the message directly to the real endpoint, wherein all communications between the mapped endpoint and the real endpoint pass through the virtual endpoint.