Re: [Hampshire] Accessing a scanner via the LAN

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Author: Mike Burrows
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Accessing a scanner via the LAN

>>> 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
>

Tried that already I'm afraid. The thing is, if I understand this
right, the scanner is using the Linux box simply to connect to the LAN
and is not hosted in the same way as samba is hosting a printer. In
other words, is it true to say that the scanner is part of the MSHOME
workgroup?

Cheers
Mike