Re: Serving a multifunction printer
On Thursday 17 March 2005 06:49 am, Colin Ingram wrote:
> Lee Braiden wrote:
> >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.
>
> 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?
Did you look at:
http://sanetwain.ozuzo.net/
or
http://fz.eryx.net/sane/windows/sane_on_windows.html
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