For anyone following this thread. This is one place I posted what Mopria Android saw when I had 2 scanners on same IP using different ports https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan/discussions/219
Mark On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:39 AM Mark Dm <markos...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do not know how it works out for AirSane but with Twain2AirScan I have > tried using different ports for different scanners. I think that AirScane > uses different paths per scanner if I recall correctly. > > Having tested multiple port based shares on the same IP address and I had > bad results. Clients like Mopria Android, OSX and other get VERY CONFUSED > and mix up names and icons. It seems that somewhere possibly in the eSCL > 2.8 official specsI read that only a single scanner was allowed per IP. I > would get scanner icon A for scanners a and B. part of scanner A Name > would show on Scanner B . > > Of course with the way Twain2AirScan shares the scanner a host system can > only share one Windows scanner. The other scanner I used for testing was > the other project on the scannershare.com site , running on a different > port. > > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:43 AM Steven Santos <ste...@stevensantos.com> > wrote: > >> I accidentally sent the reply only to Mark, but I think its worth sending >> to the group... >> >> Yes, but I am having some issues with resharing eSCL scanners. Still >> working that out. >> >> Mark asked what the point of doing this is if the scanner already >> supports eSCL. >> >> Reasons for doing this: >> >> - To centralize all of the scanners in one place. >> - To track scanning in a company. >> - To effectively use policies to set up scanners. >> >> Basically, all the same reasons you put a central print server up, even >> if the printer supports driverless printing. >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:56 AM Mark Dm <markos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone actually tested this other than the github airsane chatter >>> about it? >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 6:38 AM Steven Santos <ste...@simplycircus.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> If you have not heard, ESCL is now supported on Windows 11. SANE >>>> scanners can now be shared with Windows workstations using AirSane. >>>> >>>> This means that it is now realistic to use a SANE server as the central >>>> scan server for all OS's. >>>> >>>> I suggest it might be time to make AirSane and AirScan dependencies of >>>> SANE. >>>> >>>