SMB Scan to a Network Appliance

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: SMB Scan to a Network Appliance

I've never tried this, but would it be possible to scan to a single folder in SharePoint? In SharePoint you can add multiple users to the same Public Group and they have both read and write permissions.

Edit: I found this bit of information:



Scan app for Microsoft 365 allows you to directly scan documents to SharePoint. This makes you work more efficiently without the need to leave your SharePoint interface. The SharePoint Scan app is harmoniously integrated with SharePoint interface so you get the same familiar look and feel you are used to.

SharePoint consists of Sites with Folders. The Toshiba SharePoint app, which requires Authentication simplified with Single Sign On, allows users from the LCD panel of the copier to browse to a specific Site/Folder to scan into. Built in OCR makes it easier for users to find their files.

For this install, we are locked into scanning to a single folder on a Synology NAS drive called Scans.

Interestingly, if the customer wants to enable Synology's Quick Connect, they can browse their folders from anywhere via a web browse.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: SMB Scan to a Network Appliance

I logged in via Quick Assist this AM with a local IT tech at the customer site (4.5 hours away).

We were able to find the NAS IP by typing into a web browser find.synology.com

This gave us the network path. We got the Username and password from an employee's PC.

We programmed the same into the copier's web browser. Tested and worked A-OK.

I created a one touch icon on the copier's LCD panel called Synology NAS/ Scans and gave it a unique icon.

I enabled Searchable PDF as the default because the customer was not naming their scans. Their scan folder was a mess to try and find old un-named scans.

Customer was very happy.

Although this was my first time trying to scan to a NAS it is fundamentally not much different than scanning to any network folder.

In hindsight, I should have done a better job first interviewing the customer and reviewing the Sharp copier's web browser to get the network path before the Sharp was taken to the landfill.

[rthonpm]

Re: SMB Scan to a Network Appliance

There's no functional difference between a server and a NAS in terms of file sharing: a NAS is just an appliance as opposed to a traditional OS: you don't really interact with the operating system of the NAS, but rather its feature set.

I have an old Netgear NAS in my office that hosts some archival data and is the destination for my onsite server backups as well as being connected to my Network UPS Tools server to allow it to shut down cleanly in case of a power outage. It offered other tools as well but now that it's end of life most of them stopped working.

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: SMB Scan to a Network Appliance

I logged in via Quick Assist this AM with a local IT tech at the customer site (4.5 hours away).

We were able to find the NAS IP by typing into a web browser find.synology.com

This gave us the network path. We got the Username and password from an employee's PC.

We programmed the same into the copier's web browser. Tested and worked A-OK.

I created a one touch icon on the copier's LCD panel called Synology NAS/ Scans and gave it a unique icon.

I enabled Searchable PDF as the default because the customer was not naming their scans. Their scan folder was a mess to try and find old un-named scans.

Customer was very happy.

Although this was my first time trying to scan to a NAS it is fundamentally not much different than scanning to any network folder.

In hindsight, I should have done a better job first interviewing the customer and reviewing the Sharp copier's web browser to get the network path before the Sharp was taken to the landfill.

Congrats. There's always something to learn.