RE: Using scanners on terminals (Sorry if duplicated on list)

Yes - however PXEs wasn't a part of my final solution.

I have a bunch of old linux boxes doing scanner sharing.

I use sanetwain on the windows terminal server, and saned on the linux box
with the scanner.

Sanetwain home pages http://sanetwain.ozuzo.net/

The biggest problems I found is that USB support in saned is patchy, so I
bought a bunch of ancient scsi scanners from trademe (local ebay equivelant)
for a couple of bucks each.
The scanner servers are dedicated headless boxes - you could use them as
workstations but a P100 isn't exactly rare these days.  Also - scanners
don't support queuing in the same way as a printer, so if the scanner is in
use the second user gets some bollocky message.
Under terminal server you can only point one terminal server at one scanner
server.

Feel free to email me off list.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Barnett
Sent: Saturday, 2 October 2004 1:38 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [pxes-devel] Using scanners on terminals (Sorry if duplicated on
list)


I am using PXES9 now in our school labs, and it runs great! Last year the
machines ran as fat clients, with a scanner in each classroom for the
students to use, and I would like to get them working again.  I have a few
questions...

Information on the setup: 4 different labs booting PXES to connect to a
Windows 2003 TS.

Has anyone set up scanners to work on these terminals? Does anyone have a
how-to in the works?

Would the scanners be available to Windows programs to use, or would it have
to be used in linux?

I would like to be able to use network scanning to scan from any machine,
would I need a dedicated machine to share the scanner?

If I can get this working, I will more than gladly write up a detailed
how-to for everyone else. Thanks, Bruce


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