On Mar 15, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Michael L Torrie wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:18 -0700, Nathan wrote:
Cool! My wife's been wanting a photo-printer, and our scanner is on
it's last legs and can only be used at the computer it`s plugged into.
I'd like to add a headless linux server to my home setup soon, so the
compatibility would be very useful there.
In a fit of nerdness today, on my lunch break I got my office linux
workstation and my powerbook laptop all scanning remotely. Scanner is
at home a couple of miles away while my machines here access it over an
openvpn tunnel. Worked very well (even 300 dpi scans were reasonable
speeds). Over the LAN you can't tell it's not a local scanner.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how is this cool? Wouldn't you
have to call someone at home a couple of miles away to have them put
new pages in the scanner? Either that or run home, put a new page in,
run back to work, and then scan the next page. I mean, I guess it
saves you the hassle of copying the file from one machine to another,
but it just seems like this has limited usefulness besides the "gee
whiz" factor. :)
Course, if you are going the headless route, and your computer is right
next to the headless computer and scanner, then it might be slightly
more useful.
Grant
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