Adding Flatbed Scanner to network

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November 5th, 2003, 07:13 PM

ORANGE900

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Adding Flatbed Scanner to network

Can anyone tell me how to add a flatbed scanner to my network using LPT1 on win XP Pro, have looked everywhere to try and share the scanner.

I thought it might be as easy as sharing a printer, how wrong i was. 8(

Can anybody shed some light on this matter.

Thanks

November 6th, 2003, 04:11 PM

damonbrinkley

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I'm pretty sure you can't share a scanner with other computers on a network.

January 10th, 2004, 02:14 AM

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Sharing a scanner on a network

Actually, you can share a scanner on a network, you just need a bit of software.

This works great for Windows machines:

URL

I found them by doing a search for
how to share a scanner

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