I've got a small home network: one former desktop PC running 9.10
server edition, with 3 laptops and a netbook all running 9.10, either
standard or Netbook Remix. The former desktop functions as a file and
print server. There are two printers attached to it, an HP Officejet
5610 all-in-one and an HP Deskjet 5940 - both are fine from any
machine on the network.

My wife's laptop is one of these machines and she needs to do a load
of scanning. Testing the setup before she got to work I found that
Xsane reports the same error on all the laptops: no scanner detected.
If I run it from the server, it works fine.

So I have a simple solution to my wife's present need: sit her at my
desk and let her scan using the server. But that is not satisfactory
long term.

I'd be grateful for any help.

Ollie K

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Ollie Killingback wrote:
> I've got a small home network: one former desktop PC running 9.10
> server edition, with 3 laptops and a netbook all running 9.10, either
> standard or Netbook Remix. The former desktop functions as a file and
> print server. There are two printers attached to it, an HP Officejet
> 5610 all-in-one and an HP Deskjet 5940 - both are fine from any
> machine on the network.
>
> My wife's laptop is one of these machines and she needs to do a load
> of scanning. Testing the setup before she got to work I found that
> Xsane reports the same error on all the laptops: no scanner detected.
> If I run it from the server, it works fine.
>
> So I have a simple solution to my wife's present need: sit her at my
> desk and let her scan using the server. But that is not satisfactory
> long term.
>
> I'd be grateful for any help.
>
> Ollie K
>
>

Hmmm,
I tried this:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=ubuntu+network+scanner&aq=0&aqi=g3&aql=&o q=ubuntu+network+sc&gs_rfai=&fp=4624271fea896542
and found this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ScanningHowTo

According to the "Network Scanner" section, remote scanners need to be
set up manually. I've not done it, but it does not look hard.


Good Luck
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On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:09 +0100, Ollie Killingback wrote:
> I've got a small home network: one former desktop PC running 9.10
> server edition, with 3 laptops and a netbook all running 9.10, either
> standard or Netbook Remix. The former desktop functions as a file and
> print server. There are two printers attached to it, an HP Officejet
> 5610 all-in-one and an HP Deskjet 5940 - both are fine from any
> machine on the network.
>
> My wife's laptop is one of these machines and she needs to do a load
> of scanning. Testing the setup before she got to work I found that
> Xsane reports the same error on all the laptops: no scanner detected.
> If I run it from the server, it works fine.
>
> So I have a simple solution to my wife's present need: sit her at my
> desk and let her scan using the server. But that is not satisfactory
> long term.
>
> I'd be grateful for any help.
>
> Ollie K
>
I have a similar set up, that gave (from memory) the same issues. Then
I moved from DHCP to fixed address's for the scanner and printers, and
no more issues.
Don't know if this will help
Cheers the kiwi


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