scanner sharing

Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs networked
together via XP HOme?
tia




Bob

In article <LeqdnWgbzYOV16LeRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>, Bob says...
> Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs networked
> together via XP HOme?
> tia
>
No.


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"Conor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <LeqdnWgbzYOV16LeRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>, Bob says...
>> Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs networked
>> together via XP HOme?
>> tia
>>
> No.
>
>
> --
> Conor
>
> "You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen
> Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras.

What i did was so simple.

I had an old WIN ME machine with a huge 20gb drive.

Cleared everthin goff. New install of Win Me

Installed the scanning software.
Pointed the default directory to c:\scans

Shared c:\scans so all PC on the network could see it. All the operator has
to do , is put in the document , hit scan button. Remove document. Go back
to PC and can access his doc from there.

This shared pc now acts as a print server as well.

Simple and cheap. Providing you have a spare PC

The scanner has to support scanning over the network - I know some HP
scanners have such a facility to do so.


On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 19:46:37 -0700, "Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs networked
>together via XP HOme?
>tia
>

Bob wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs networked
> together via XP HOme?

If you don't mind spending money, a USB Network Server will do exactly
what you're after. It's a little box that plugs into the USB device and
connects it to a spare network port, plus some software that gives
Windows a virtual USB port to play with. As far as your scanning
software is concerned, the device is connected locally. I haven't used
one m'self, but I can't see anything wrong with the theory: I've done
exactly the same with RS232 serial devices.

<http://www.everythingusb.com/hardware/index/Keyspan_USB_Server.htm>

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Bob wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs networked
> together via XP HOme?
> tia
>
>

Try here:
http://www.remote-scan.com/

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Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 11:42:39 GMT, "Big Brian"
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>Simple and cheap. Providing you have a spare PC
>
Not a bad idea, only thing I can see wrong with that is the WinME bit,
brings tears to my eyes! Might do the same on my SuSE server box,
saves me powering up a PC just to scan rthen save across a network.

Thanks for the idea!
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Stuart @ SJW Electrical

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"Lurch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 11:42:39 GMT, "Big Brian"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> scrawled:
>
>>Simple and cheap. Providing you have a spare PC
>>
> Not a bad idea, only thing I can see wrong with that is the WinME bit,
> brings tears to my eyes! Might do the same on my SuSE server box,
> saves me powering up a PC just to scan rthen save across a network.
>
> Thanks for the idea!
> --
> Stuart @ SJW Electrical
>
> Please Reply to group

It was win me cos thats what i had to hand. One day we will go the Suse line
, but it works and hasnt gone belly up for ages. If it dies , it just gets a
reboot