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Sharing scanner over LAN
Name: Sam Young Date: December 13, 2002 at 02:26:27 Pacific OS: winXP CPU/Ram: 850/256
Comment:
Trying to share scanner over lan, scanner is connected to usb port in XP home comp, trying to scan on XP home and Win2000 comps. Enabled printer through add new printer, anything similar for scanners?
I've about the same problem, but my scanner works with win98 proper only... Maybe there is a way to determine the hardware adressing in windows (similar to linux /dev/...) and then share the scanners adress via registry... dunno but try to figure it out... another way is set up the scanner with a linux machine which will definetly work (did it at work)- had you any success by the way? just since you had a week since? :)
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Response Number 3
Name: christo Date: January 7, 2003 at 13:17:05 Pacific
Reply:
The only way you can share a scanner is via USB. The scanner will need to be on a USB HUB, then connect the computers to the hub and load the scanner software on to each machine
Summary: Hi, I have brought a new scanner and I have tried to share it over a network. However windows does not give the option to share it over a network in the scanners properties (like it does with printers...
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