[sane-devel] Interactive use of scanner buttons

[Jörn-Ingo Weigert]

Usually, those scan to pc functionality require either a (anonymous) SMB/
FTP folder or prop. driver on the target PC.
If your scanner is connected to the network, try to reach the web interface
of the browser by it's IP Address to configure your scan buttons.


Perry Hutchison via sane-devel <sane-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net> schrieb
am Sa., 4. Dez. 2021, 03:58:

> A data point:
>
> The Canon MF4880dw -- a multifunction device with network and USB
> interfaces -- has two buttons, labelled Scan->PC1 and Scan->PC2,
> which seem as if they could be of interest to sane.  When I attempt
> to configure one of those buttons using the front panel, selecting
> "Network connection" (rather than "Off" or "USB connection") displays
> "Connect computer" for a couple of seconds before redisplaying the
> Off/USB/Network selection screen.  (Interestingly, selecting "USB
> connection" does not require anything to be connected to the
> scanner's USB interface.)
>
> I haven't tried to figure out how the scanner determines that a
> computer is connected.  There are in fact several computers on the
> network, but none running any Canon software, which leads me to
> suspect that -- before configuring the Scan->PC# buttons -- the
> computer(s) to be used as destination(s) would need to be set up.
> (I had hoped that the front panel configuration menus would allow
> an IP address and port number to be set for each of the buttons.)
>
>
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