Networked MFPs - What Scan Software

I have a Hewlett Packard MFP C5280 currently connected to an Ubuntu
Linux box.

The printer is available to two other XP laptops using Samba and CUPS.

I've managed limited network scanner success using Linux's SANE server
but lose a lot of the HP Windows software functions. The HP software
sees the printer as disconnected so remote scanning is via a
Winows/Linux interface program.

I do want to get a WiFi print server and am wondering, with the MFP
servers, does the printer's supplied Windows software work of does one
have to use some other cut down version.

Geoff Lane