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Any way to share a scanner over a LAN?

2004-02-22, 7:10 PM #1

Pagewizard_YKS

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I have a mini-lan (2 computers and a router) at my house and I want to share my scanner over the network. Can this be done on WinXP?

(Its easy to do this with printers, but I'm not sure how to do this w/ a scanner b/c theres no Share tab in the properties window.

Any thoughts?

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2004-02-22, 7:14 PM #2

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Not that I know of. Google is your friend.

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2004-02-22, 7:48 PM #3

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Save the picture to a shared documents folder.

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2004-02-22, 7:56 PM #4

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Sharing a scanner seems kind of odd since you have to be at the computer with the scanner to put whatever you are scanning into the scanner

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2004-02-23, 2:25 AM #5

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Yes.
Install a Print Server. It won't be cheap to do that though.. and it's kinda hard to set up. I have a print server connecting to two computers in my house. It's pretty neat. One of the computers is wireless too.

2004-02-23, 8:10 AM #6

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www.share-scanner.com

The only thing I could find that could do it without major changes to hardware/software.

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2004-02-23, 8:19 AM #7

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SANE allows you to set up network scanners...

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2004-02-23, 8:24 AM #8

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I wonder what would happen if you used one of those USB to Ethernet adapters and then plugged the thing into a switch...

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2004-02-23, 8:53 AM #9

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Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yecti:
I wonder what would happen if you used one of those USB to Ethernet adapters and then plugged the thing into a switch... </font>

I believe that that is the basis of sharing most devices on a simple (home-use) LAN... But I think there's a bit more to it than that... I may be wrong here...

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2004-02-23, 2:05 PM #10

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Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Avenger:
Sharing a scanner seems kind of odd since you have to be at the computer with the scanner to put whatever you are scanning into the scanner

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