Re: Saving scanned document
On 24.07.2013 20:37, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:15:09 -0500 Mark Felder articulated: Can your machine email the PDF? That's how I'd solve it... have it send to a mailbox on your local machine and have a script that grabs the attachment and puts it in a directory shared on the network. That is a novel idea and yes it does have the ability to send a scanned document via email; however, I think that is way more trouble than it is worth. I have the problem solved by sharing the directories on the MS machines. It isn't perfect, but it does work. Porting the Brother scanner software to FreeBSD would probably be ideal, but I have neither the time, a spare machine nor probably the skill to do it. Jerry, Have you thought about using FTP? First googled spec on brother-usa.com shows that it supports Scan To: E-mail, Image, OCR, File, FTP, USB, Network And in Supported protocols they mention: FTP Client and Server -- Pozdrawiam, Maciej Milewski ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
On Tuesday 23 Jul 2013 23:37:45 Jerry wrote: . There is a application that controls printing, scanning, faxing and copying but that is only available on a Windows or Mac machine. Might it work with wine? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:50:00 -0400 Lowell Gilbert articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Does anyone know of a way of getting the scanner to see the FreeBSD machine and saving a file to it? I'm not sure I correctly understand your intention, but maybe Samba is what you're looking for? Samba is working fine and all of the other computers on the network can see each other and the printer/scanner. The problem is that the scanner does not see the FreeBSD machine. I'm going to make some guesses here, because your information is still sketchy. Specifically, I'm assuming that you have Samba running on the FreeBSD machine, and that the other (Windows) computers can write files to the Samba shares on the FreeBSD machine, but that some kind of GUI comes up when you scan, and offers Windows machines as possible destination, but doesn't offer the FreeBSD machine. Assuming all of that is correct, this is a Samba-tuning question, and you may need a Samba expert. But first you can check whether the machines agree on the master browser, and whether there's an Active Directory lookup occurring in each (Windows machine vs. printer-scanner) case. Are these hosts all on the same IP subnet? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:22:46 -0400 Lowell Gilbert articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:50:00 -0400 Lowell Gilbert articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Does anyone know of a way of getting the scanner to see the FreeBSD machine and saving a file to it? I'm not sure I correctly understand your intention, but maybe Samba is what you're looking for? Samba is working fine and all of the other computers on the network can see each other and the printer/scanner. The problem is that the scanner does not see the FreeBSD machine. I'm going to make some guesses here, because your information is still sketchy. Specifically, I'm assuming that you have Samba running on the FreeBSD machine, and that the other (Windows) computers can write files to the Samba shares on the FreeBSD machine, but that some kind of GUI comes up when you scan, and offers Windows machines as possible destination, but doesn't offer the FreeBSD machine. Assuming all of that is correct, this is a Samba-tuning question, and you may need a Samba expert. But first you can check whether the machines agree on the master browser, and whether there's an Active Directory lookup occurring in each (Windows machine vs. printer-scanner) case. Are these hosts all on the same IP subnet? Yes, they are all on the same IP subnet and there is no active directory. I believe the problem to be that the software needed by the scanner is not running on the FreeBSD machine, nor is it likely to in the near future. Brother makes the software for *.nix, MAC and Windows, but that is it. I seriously doubt that i am going to spend anymore time on this issue. I have all ready shared the directories that the scanner saves files into on the Windows machines, and can mount and access them from the FreeBSD one. Spending hours to save a few minutes work of time is not a good use of my time or energy. If it was only a matter of a tweak here or there I would do it; however, it has become apparent to me that it goes further than that. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
Can your machine email the PDF? That's how I'd solve it... have it send to a mailbox on your local machine and have a script that grabs the attachment and puts it in a directory shared on the network. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:15:09 -0500 Mark Felder articulated: Can your machine email the PDF? That's how I'd solve it... have it send to a mailbox on your local machine and have a script that grabs the attachment and puts it in a directory shared on the network. That is a novel idea and yes it does have the ability to send a scanned document via email; however, I think that is way more trouble than it is worth. I have the problem solved by sharing the directories on the MS machines. It isn't perfect, but it does work. Porting the Brother scanner software to FreeBSD would probably be ideal, but I have neither the time, a spare machine nor probably the skill to do it. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
On 2013-07-23 19:14, Jerry wrote: I have a Brother MFC-9560CDW printer. The printer is hooked up wireless If you want it to work, use HP. Or make sure its compatible with HP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:09:59 +0200 Bernt Hansson articulated: On 2013-07-23 19:14, Jerry wrote: I have a Brother MFC-9560CDW printer. The printer is hooked up wireless If you want it to work, use HP. Or make sure its compatible with HP. I certainly don't want start a flame war over HP vs Brother; however, with the exception that Brother doesn't support FreeBSD, I like everything about it better than the HP offerings. I all ready shared the scanned directory on my main MS machine, so I can easily access it from the FreeBSD PC. It is not the best solution; however, it is certainly a workable one. Brother does have scanner drivers available at: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_index.html?reg=usc=uslang=enprod=mfc9560cdw_usdlid=flang=Englishos=127type2=-1 I have just never been able to convert them into something that works on FreeBSD. Plus, the fact that I don't have a spare machine that I can use to try it out on isn't helping the problem either. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Does anyone know of a way of getting the scanner to see the FreeBSD machine and saving a file to it? I'm not sure I correctly understand your intention, but maybe Samba is what you're looking for? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:50:00 -0400 Lowell Gilbert articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Does anyone know of a way of getting the scanner to see the FreeBSD machine and saving a file to it? I'm not sure I correctly understand your intention, but maybe Samba is what you're looking for? Samba is working fine and all of the other computers on the network can see each other and the printer/scanner. The problem is that the scanner does not see the FreeBSD machine. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:35:40 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:50:00 -0400 Lowell Gilbert articulated: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: Does anyone know of a way of getting the scanner to see the FreeBSD machine and saving a file to it? I'm not sure I correctly understand your intention, but maybe Samba is what you're looking for? Samba is working fine and all of the other computers on the network can see each other and the printer/scanner. The problem is that the scanner does not see the FreeBSD machine. Jerry; Doesn't Brother printers have a webpage where you can scan from it? At least that's what the HP I have does. Any computer on the network can access this page and scan from it. Including my BSD. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Saving scanned document
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:16:06 -0300 Mario Lobo articulated: Doesn't Brother printers have a webpage where you can scan from it? At least that's what the HP I have does. Any computer on the network can access this page and scan from it. Including my BSD. I don't know. It seems like a lot more work than is really necessary though. There is a web interface, but that only allows me to make settings to the unit. There is a application that controls printing, scanning, faxing and copying but that is only available on a Windows or Mac machine. They do have some utilities for *.nix, but none of them work out of the box on FreeBSD. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
