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Share a scanner in a network server with Debian Linux
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| Guillaume Mahieu 2005-02-17, 5:54 pm |
| Hello,
I want converse an old computer (Pentium II 450 MHz with 96 Mo RAM
Memory) in a network server with Debian Linux, Debian installation is
done, but, I want share my scanner (Agfa 1236s connected to a ISA SCSI
card) with my private network.
What I must doing to install and share this scanner ?
Thank you.
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| Michael Vilain 2005-02-17, 5:54 pm |
| In article <13929e71.0502170947.7441860c@posting.google.com>,
guillaume@tendancepc.net (Guillaume Mahieu) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want converse an old computer (Pentium II 450 MHz with 96 Mo RAM
> Memory) in a network server with Debian Linux, Debian installation is
> done, but, I want share my scanner (Agfa 1236s connected to a ISA SCSI
> card) with my private network.
>
> What I must doing to install and share this scanner ?
>
> Thank you.
Write a scanner driver and scanner server daemon that runs on the
machine that will host your scanner. Write a scanner client which
connects to the server over the network for each different machine on
your network.
I've never seen this architecture in practice as scanners aren't
expensive and there's no money in making them a shared network resource.
Add to that the fact that most scanner vendors don't write the drivers
and software for their products, but contract it out to a software
house. That's why most scanner software only works on a narrow set of
OS versions and patch levels. If you have the internal specification
document which describes how your scanner works, start coding (doubtful
as it's proprietary and would most likely get the Department of Homeland
Security in your face for violations of Trademark here in the US).
It's probably cheaper in terms of time and money to buy a scanner for
each machine that needs one. If you don't have the scanner internals
document, you'll have to reverse engineer how the scanner works. That
will also get Homeland Security on you doorstep.
Dontcha just _love_ the DCMA. Just wait, the European Parliament is
considering drafting a version of your very own. Lucky you!
--
DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee...
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| Begin <vilain-E42173.12461817022005@news.giganews.com>
On 2005-02-17, Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote:
> In article <13929e71.0502170947.7441860c@posting.google.com>,
> guillaume@tendancepc.net (Guillaume Mahieu) wrote:
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> Write a scanner driver and scanner server daemon that runs on the
> machine that will host your scanner. Write a scanner client which
> connects to the server over the network for each different machine on
> your network.
It's been done: http://www.sane-project.org .
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j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .
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| Thomas Jahns 2005-02-18, 7:49 am |
| guillaume@tendancepc.net (Guillaume Mahieu) writes:
> I want converse an old computer (Pentium II 450 MHz with 96 Mo RAM
> Memory) in a network server with Debian Linux, Debian installation is
> done, but, I want share my scanner (Agfa 1236s connected to a ISA SCSI
> card) with my private network.
>
> What I must doing to install and share this scanner ?
You will need to install sane on both the server and the clients. Sane
is supposed to work on MacOS X, and definitely works on many other Unix
systems, but I'm not sure if it has been ported to Win32.
The server would run saned and the clients need to be configured to use
the server host as scanner backend.
For debian saned is contained in the sane-utils package.
All this has nothing to do with SCSI itself and would be just the same
for a USB-attached scanner, so please consider asking further questions
in groups that typically discuss the operating systems you intend to
use. And read the saned(8) and sane-snapscan(5) manpages before you do
so, they should already contain all the information you need.
Thomas Jahns
--
"Computers are good at following instructions,
but not at reading your mind."
D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. 9
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| Guillaume Mahieu 2005-02-22, 7:59 am |
| Thanks for your assistance, that corresponds what I thought with
regard to the use of SANE. The problem is that I have to find the
parameters of IRQ and E/S because it's an ISA card. But take a SCSI
card in PCI, yes, but which ?
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| Crazy Monkey 2005-02-26, 5:53 pm |
| guillaume@tendancepc.net (Guillaume Mahieu) wrote in message news:<13929e71.0502220202.5a041eba@posting.google.com>...
> Thanks for your assistance, that corresponds what I thought with
> regard to the use of SANE. The problem is that I have to find the
> parameters of IRQ and E/S because it's an ISA card. But take a SCSI
> card in PCI, yes, but which ?
Adaptec SCSI Connect 2904 PCI Card
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