Dec 09, 2020, 05:48 am
I'm planning to buy a multi-functional printer around next year at this time (or the year after, whatever the foreseeable future is), and I am looking to be able to share and use it for all three/four of my computers in my household.
Printing is probably self-explanatory to share and print at all machines, although I have to make sure that my 64-bit GNU/Linux computer and the two Windows 7 32-bit computers can use it all at once.
Herein lies my question: how does a GNU/Linux scanner program like xsane or simple-scan detect and use a scanner? I use simple-scan on a Windows 7 computer, but I had to put it in my virtual machine emulating Linux Mint 17.3 because there are no Windows 7 drivers for the scanner. Virtualbox detects the scanner like how Windows 7 detects the scanner, despite the fact that it has no drivers for it and can't use it. I was able to have simple-scan detect and use my scanner without problems.
Sounds like I answered my own question, eh? Well, my question, then, is this: how do future versions of your favourite scanner program detect a scanner that is connected to another computer in your network and use the scanner in simple-scan? Does it detect it as easily as if it was connected to your computer like my example, or does it involve a fair amount of work?
Printing is probably self-explanatory to share and print at all machines, although I have to make sure that my 64-bit GNU/Linux computer and the two Windows 7 32-bit computers can use it all at once.
Herein lies my question: how does a GNU/Linux scanner program like xsane or simple-scan detect and use a scanner? I use simple-scan on a Windows 7 computer, but I had to put it in my virtual machine emulating Linux Mint 17.3 because there are no Windows 7 drivers for the scanner. Virtualbox detects the scanner like how Windows 7 detects the scanner, despite the fact that it has no drivers for it and can't use it. I was able to have simple-scan detect and use my scanner without problems.
Sounds like I answered my own question, eh? Well, my question, then, is this: how do future versions of your favourite scanner program detect a scanner that is connected to another computer in your network and use the scanner in simple-scan? Does it detect it as easily as if it was connected to your computer like my example, or does it involve a fair amount of work?
