Lee Braiden wrote:
This is a good idea, which I have thought about. I haven't actually looking into scanning since the server doesn't have a desktop or X installed, and I would prefer to keep it that way. The scanner is mostly for my girlfriends use, who I might be able to convince to use linux on her laptop (If I give her a sweet desktop and show her how to use, but she doesn't like computers that much) but I still have the problem of being able to serve the scanner to the laptop. I may be asking a lot to have this work with a windows client...does anyone have a solution for linux clients?On Thursday 17 March 2005 02:04, Colin Ingram wrote:I have a multifunction HP printer, a Debian sarge server/gateway, and some windows XP clients who would like print/scan access. I can set up printing but I don't know about scanner. Is there some Debian software which could facilitate passing data over a lan from a scanner to a windows program. This would obviously require both server and client software. Alternatively, I have a KVM switch with a usb port.Assuming you've got the actual scanning working on Linux, why not just drop the scanned files into a folder on the server where windows can access it over the network? If security is an issue, you could have them login and run the scanning software, which would then dump the images to their home directory or something.