[sane-devel] How can I access a scanner connected to a Windows box from a SANE frontend throught the network ?

[m. allan noah]

the CLX-3170fn is supported by  the development version of sane. it
looks very similar to yours...

allan

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Liam <liam at eliam.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the speedy reply!
>
> It is a colour laser combi thing, Samsung CLX-3175.  I managed to install it
> both via the manufacturers drivers and the open source ones and both worked
> fine for the printer but not the scanner. (I used the CLX-3170 driver).
>
> I'd really like to set this up as a networked printer and scanner.  The
> networked printer bit works fine from either Linux or Windows being the host
> / client but the scanner doesn't appear to work in Linux (I may not have
> installed in correctly) and investigating setting up a networked scanner in
> Windows lead me to corporate style licensed software.  This is just for a
> home environment with a couple of users (although would probably be useful
> for larger enterprises too if it works!)
>
> Oh, by the way, if I did find driver support for the scanner on Linux, or it
> came available in the future, would the Windows host be able to access the
> SANE scanner as a network scanner?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Liam
>
>
>
>> I dont think this can be done. What scanner is it?
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Liam <liam at eliam.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've just bought a shiny new printer with poor Linux support for the
>>> scanner
>>> drivers and this lead me to your web page.  FAQ 2.13 has got my interest!
>>>
>>> Has anybody tried this?
>>>
>>> Is it possible to setup saned to talk to twain?
>>>
>>> I'm thinking:
>>>
>>> sane client (linux) -- tcp/ip -> saned(win) -> twain -> scanner...
>>>
>>> Does this make sense to anyone, or am I just inSANE! :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Liam
>>>
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