Scan to smb (someone will find this helpful)

[n25an]

PLEASE ADD LINKS TO OTHER SMB POSTS TO THIS ONE...
There are some good ones in this forum but the search utility seems to be down...

Scanning To Smb

Scanning To Smb

(prerequisite: setup a shared folder on pc and setup a userid with a password that can access it...)

On kyocera copiers, if all is going well, you can do the following...

user: username

password: password

hostname or IP address: this depends on your estimation of the network stability if its really stable then use hostname... if you really aren't too sure use IP address and make sure its not in the IP range of the router...

path: in general you are going to put a folder at the root... so path should just be the folder name... if you don't put it there then you will have to put in the exact path for the folder...


Now lets say you have issues logging into the network...
The easy way around this is to create a local admin user on the machine and then use his login and password...

Now lets say you really need to log into the network to get scan to smb running... because the shared folder is on the server

your user name can take one of the following configurations...

say the user is test

say the domain is mydomain.com...

here are your possibilities

MYDOMAIN\test

test@mydomain.com

test@mydomain.local

test

there may be other possibilities but I have not run into them as yet...

[n25an]

A tip when setting up scan to smb on windows 7

Get A laptop that has vista or xp and use that as your test base...

If the laptop can see your windows 7 box...

and can log into it...

The copier can log into it...

If you cannot log into it...

then you need to goto

In the Windows 7 machine
start
control panel
network and sharing
advanced sharing

you need to play with the advanced sharing options till windows 7 box is visible from vista/xp box

and can be logged into from vista/xp box...

once you can do that... then you can go back to doing your normal smb setup...

it honestly doesn't matter if you use simple or advanced file sharing...

just share... the folder that you want to scan to...

make sure you can see it from the copier and you are good to go...