Re: [Hampshire] Accessing a scanner via the LAN

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Author: James Ashburner
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Accessing a scanner via the LAN
Mike Burrows wrote:
> Is it possible for a doze client to access and use the
>>> scanner though?
>>>
>>
>> Sane can run as a daemon (saned), in which case there's a variety of
>> clients
>> both local and remote to choose from:
>>
>> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-frontends.html
>>
>> There are even drivers to provide access to network saned scanners
>> through the
>> Windows TWAIN scanner layer.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
> Hello again. Downloaded and installed the sanetwain doze client but am
> having problems configuring it to "see" the scanner hosted on the linux
> box. the client is asking for a hostname in the form of
> "scanner.domain.org" but I'm having problems relating that to my home
> network, where all the doze clients and the samba server are in the
> default MSHOME workgroup.
>
> any thoughts please?
>
> TIA
> Mike
>
>


Try:

Nameoflinuxserver.MSHOME

James