[sane-devel] Sharing a scanner

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:02:41 +0200


Hi,

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:17:47PM -0700, Keith Robertson wrote:
> I have an OfficeJet G85 connected to a RH box.  The
> printing functions of the printer are shared with a
> couple of Windoze PCs via SAMBA.  Now, I would like to
> share the G85's scanner with the Windoze boxes.  Is
> this possible with saned?  If so how?

Start saned on the Linux box and some SANE frontend that can contact
the saned on the Windows boxen. SaneTwain and XSane come to mind.

Links:

saned http://home.arcor.de/jochen.eisinger/saned/
SaneTwain http://sanetwain.ozuzo.net/
XSane http://www.xsane.org

Bye,
  Henning