[sane-devel] ESCL

[Mark Dm]

For anyone following this thread. This is one place I posted what Mopria
Android saw when I had 2 scanners on same IP using different ports
https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan/discussions/219

Mark

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:39 AM Mark Dm <markosjal at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do not know how it works out for AirSane but with Twain2AirScan I have
> tried using different ports for different scanners. I think that AirScane
> uses different paths per scanner if I recall correctly.
>
> Having tested multiple port based shares on the same IP address and I had
> bad results. Clients like Mopria Android, OSX and other get VERY CONFUSED
> and mix up names and icons. It seems that somewhere possibly in the eSCL
> 2.8 official specsI read that only a single scanner was allowed per IP. I
> would get scanner icon A for scanners a and B. part of scanner A Name
> would show on Scanner B .
>
> Of course with the way Twain2AirScan shares the scanner a host system can
> only share one Windows scanner. The other scanner I used for testing was
> the other project on the scannershare.com site , running on a different
> port.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:43 AM Steven Santos <steven at stevensantos.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I accidentally sent the reply only to Mark, but I think its worth sending
>> to the group...
>>
>> Yes, but I am having some issues with resharing eSCL scanners.  Still
>> working that out.
>>
>> Mark asked what the point of doing this is if the scanner already
>> supports eSCL.
>>
>> Reasons for doing this:
>>
>>    - To centralize all of the scanners in one place.
>>    - To track scanning in a company.
>>    - To effectively use policies to set up scanners.
>>
>> Basically, all the same reasons you put a central print server up, even
>> if the printer supports driverless printing.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:56 AM Mark Dm <markosjal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone actually tested this other than the github airsane chatter
>>> about it?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 6:38 AM Steven Santos <steven at simplycircus.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you have not heard, ESCL is now supported on Windows 11.  SANE
>>>> scanners can now be shared with Windows workstations using AirSane.
>>>>
>>>> This means that it is now realistic to use a SANE server as the central
>>>> scan server for all OS's.
>>>>
>>>> I suggest it might be time to make AirSane and AirScan dependencies of
>>>> SANE.
>>>>
>>>
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