Re: Sharing a Scanner

From: phoenix (phoenix_at_fakeaddress.net)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:35:30 GMT

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:44:50 +1300, Chris Mahoney wrote:

> Thanks, but do you know of anything that doesn't require special client
> software? I didn't want to overcomplicate my original question, but I'm not
> running Windows on all the computers, and therefore can't use anything
> Windows-specific.
>
> With the printer, I can just right-click it and go to Sharing. Can't you do
> this with a scanner?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
> PS. That first post is still useful, I've been looking for something like
> that :)
>
> On 2/10/04 9:28 PM, in article 1v84x9qp5lxzh$.1rxaqpbbkvb7w$.dlg@40tude.net,
> "phoenix" <phoenix@fakeaddress.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Found it quicker than I expected. This http://www.remote-scan.com/ *is* the
>> one I meant to post, honest. ;-)
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Bill

Hi

No, there's nothing that I know of. The only scanners that have networking
abilities, that I know of, are high-end products and some of the Umax
scanners. You can't share a scanner like a printer I'm afraid, not in
Windows.

Regards

Bill

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