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Remote scanning
Posted by neopotent@gmail.com on July 21st, 2006


Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to have a scanner connected to the
server and have all the regular computers scan from there.

I know people have asked this before, but maybe now some software has
come out that would work.

Also maybe xp has some feature that can do it

I have the officejet 7310 from hp

Any help would be great

Zach

Posted by Dances With Crows on July 21st, 2006


On 21 Jul 2006 08:30:29 -0700, neopotent@gmail.com staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
This is ... less optimal than you may think. If you're at computer M,
and there's a scanner at computer N, you have to walk over to computer N
and put the original on the scanner. Then you have to walk back to
computer M and do your scanning. Then you have to walk to computer N
and get your original back. You'd have fewer trips if you just took the
original over to computer N and scanned the thing locally.

This has existed for many years, under the names "TightVNC" and "X11".
Keep in mind that these are *general* solutions for the problem of
running a GUI app (or entire desktop environment) on machine N while
that app or environment displays on machine M and receives input from
machine M.

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