HP says the drivers for my Scanjet 6300 need to be installed on the client machine.  Kind of a big space ding, nearly 100 Mb just for the driver.

>I have not done this, but it would be expected that the client machine
>would need an appropriate driver to access even a network device. This
>is true of network printers, for example. However, it is often possible
>to download the necessary drivers from the network when working with
>printers. I don't know if the same is true of the scanner.
>
>Peter
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>-----Original Message-----
>If it is a fairly recent HP scanjet, I know there is software in the
>most current download of the driver. I have a scanjet 6300, and the
>driver for it comes with networking software.  You do have to install
>the scanner driver on the other machines that will use it, though.
>
>>It is apparently possible to network a scanner with appropriate
>>software. At one time I looked into it, but decided against doing so.
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