To nitpick - but it catches out a LOT of people -
SAMBA is NOT NOT NOT the appropriate software here. It will NOT do what you
claim.
Samba allows Windows boxes to access a unix server
(and allows that server to join a Windows domain).
If you want to use a unix *client* to access a
Windows server, you need smbmount and friends, which are not not not samba. If
you want to what you suggest, using samba, you need to get the pcs to save
directly into a nix directory which samba has exported to the network, rather
than getting a nix box to monitor a windows directory.
Cheers,
Wol
Could
also have the PC that is scanning save to a specific
directory.
then
have a program monitor that directory for new entries, read them, encode them
and save them
somehow then the saved filename would have be linked into
the system.
I'm
just using pcpaint as an example of a program that might be able to read
directly from a scanner
and
save in .jpg/.bmp format.
If
volume is high, and a number of scanners are being used, then have one central
PC share it's directory
and
each scanner saves to that directory. Since the directory is shared, you could
even have unix system
running SAMBA monitor the directory (thus bringing unix into the
picture). The only drawback to having
unix
in the setup is that it is more difficult to have unix bring up IE on a PC.
But that could be gotten around
if
you run a lpr/lpd daemon on the PC which can then take a print job and pass it
to a program (ie. RPM
www.brooksnet.com). or use a PC with rsh
daemon that would allow the unix system to send the launch
command to the PC. or even a small custom PERL socketed program on the
PC which could listen for
a
command and launch IE.
Depending on the $$ wanted to be spent.
I
don't think a having the image be a type 1/19 file would be good, unless it's
base64 or mime encoded, as you could
have
char(255)'s imbedded in the image.
George
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