On Saturday 20 May 2006 07:37, Duncan Guy wrote: > Does anyone have a system working where a server can use a scanner at a > remote location?
Sure. SANE, the Linux TWAIN equivalent, can and always could. You even can use TWAIN scanners on Windows remotely via SANE2TWAIN bridge If you need the bridge, google for it. If you can connect your scanner to a Linux box, it works right out of the box (provides a web interface where you can scan from any computer that is networked with that one and can run a web browser) The print servers I used in my rooms are IBM netvista thin clients. I have installed Linux on them, incl SANE. That allows me to both print and scan on our HP MFCs via software that is running on a server in a different room (that is, the the netvista acts as both print and scan server). Of course, the desktop client you have can also act as the print and scan server - which is our new situation: in order to drive our 1920x1200 24" screens we needed graphic cards better than what any thin clients provided. So now we run fat clients - and they act as print, scan, and X server. The application server sits in the backroom and runs all clinical software, nothing gets installed locally that we need for our clinic (meaning doctors can install games or whatever they like on the fat clients without compromising our system as long as they don't change the print and scan settings) All fat clients and the server run Debian Linux. The server also runs Win4Lin TS, allowing Pracsoft as legacy software to be used (via the Windows emulation) until we complete our replacement for it Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
