wireless print server

In alt.comp.hardware, on Sun, 23 Aug 2015 01:59:11 +0000 (UTC),
lid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general micky wrote:
To connect a printer that's not wireless to a wireless network, one uses
a wireless print server.

But what about a scanner? Do those connect the same way, with a
wireless print server?

For USB scanners, there's USB/IP (http://usbip.sourceforge.net/).

For the wireless, I'd use a wireless router with Openwrt enstalled,
running the USB/IP software
(http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/usb.iptunnel). You'd need a router
with USB of course, but many have this.

The other option would be to set up an old PC, but required power and
reliability may be worse.

Parallel port network interfacing would be harder. If you could get
the scanner to work via a command line interface (maybe with SANE
drivers), you might be able to set up a PC with some scripts to
scan and put the resulting image on a network drive or something
similar. At least that would get around the need for drivers on
client computers and might therefore be quite reliable, but it
would be some work setting it up.

Thanks. I'll save this stuff for my future use, but any of these, but
especially the last would be too complicated for the guy who emailed me
last Thursday to get the scanner I'm giving away, NIB, who didn't even
know if his laptop had a parallel port, or that he couldn't add one.
But I wanted him to have it because he's the son of a woman who's been
very nice to me.

That option could of course be considered for USB as well. From
what I've seen, Parallel port scanners are worth nothing, used USB
scanners might be worth $2 if you try hard enough. There's not
much point trying to use a Parallel port scanner if USB has an
advantage.

I have two guy who ran hamfests this summer who were interested in them,
who know the members of their clubs, and each know someone who can use
pme/

They're worth quite a bit to someone with a parallel port, no scanner,
and not as much money as a lot of peeople on usenet seem to think
everyone has.

(The first hamfest, I slept til noon, so I asked the other guy too.
I'll give it to one of them.)

In alt.comp.hardware, on Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:07:33 +0000 (UTC),
lid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

Parallel port network interfacing would be harder. If you could get
the scanner to work via a command line interface (maybe with SANE
drivers), you might be able to set up a PC with some scripts to
scan and put the resulting image on a network drive or something
similar. At least that would get around the need for drivers on
client computers and might therefore be quite reliable, but it
would be some work setting it up.

That option could of course be considered for USB as well.

Arh, can't stop researching...

There's a Web interface for SANE:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsane/

You're sure this won't make me inSANE?

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general micky wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware, on Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:07:33 +0000 (UTC),
lid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

Parallel port network interfacing would be harder. If you could get
the scanner to work via a command line interface (maybe with SANE
drivers), you might be able to set up a PC with some scripts to
scan and put the resulting image on a network drive or something
similar. At least that would get around the need for drivers on
client computers and might therefore be quite reliable, but it
would be some work setting it up.

That option could of course be considered for USB as well.

Arh, can't stop researching...

There's a Web interface for SANE:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsane/

You're sure this won't make me inSANE?

Oh, you're inSANE when you decide to try it. The name is just to give
you hope.

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