SCX8128 - How does "scan to pc" work compare with "scan to server"?

[Dolly]

Hi everyone. This is freshie again. Today I successfully installed a Samsung SCX8128 which I thought would give me hell especially setting of scanners. There were so many threads with the problems and issues on scanning both smb and ftp it worries me. Today all I did was just load the dvd that comes with the new machine into users' pcs and click "yes,yes,yes....." and finally "finish" to complete installation. The "printer" and "scan to pc" were setup just like that. And they work beautifully. The "scan to pc" scan into the path My Documents\scan where the "scan" folder was automatically created by the installation software. I installed all 6pcs on WIN7 both 32bits and 64bits which according to many readers were the most problematic with regard to their sharing and permission level.

Does anyone knows how does "scan to pc" work compare with "scan to server"? What protocol does it use to transfer the file? And how it passes through to "My Document" which is a private folder and not a public folder?

Please share if you have any knowledge on this no matter how little.

[bdcrandall13]

Re: SCX8128 - How does "scan to pc" work compare with "scan to server"?

Hi everyone. This is freshie again. Today I successfully installed a Samsung SCX8128 which I thought would give me hell especially setting of scanners. There were so many threads with the problems and issues on scanning both smb and ftp it worries me. Today all I did was just load the dvd that comes with the new machine into users' pcs and click "yes,yes,yes....." and finally "finish" to complete installation. The "printer" and "scan to pc" were setup just like that. And they work beautifully. The "scan to pc" scan into the path My Documents\scan where the "scan" folder was automatically created by the installation software. I installed all 6pcs on WIN7 both 32bits and 64bits which according to many readers were the most problematic with regard to their sharing and permission level.

Does anyone knows how does "scan to pc" work compare with "scan to server"? What protocol does it use to transfer the file? And how it passes through to "My Document" which is a private folder and not a public folder?

Please share if you have any knowledge on this no matter how little.

Just an FYI, depending on the size of documents that the customer is scanning you may run into issues with corrupted files when using the "Scan to PC" method. From my experience it seems like the scan to PC method sends the data page by page until the entire document is scanned. I could be wrong but I believe it is basically using a TWAIN driver. I had one customer in particular that scanned 30-40 page documents regularly and more than half of the time the files would not open for them. My assumption was that there was something in their network, (their network is terrible!) that was causing a packet loss during transmission which caused the file to be corrupted.
I set up scan to SMB and the problem went away. I'm ASSUMING that when scan to SMB is used that the scanned data is gathered together at the MFP and then sent as one file. There is all kinds of articles on scanning to SMB on both windows 7 and 8. I have never ran into problems when trying to set up SMB though. Most of our installs are for smaller offices that aren't real security conscious so maybe that is why.

[Venom]

Re: SCX8128 - How does "scan to pc" work compare with "scan to server"?

or you can install filezilla on the customer's pc and set up scan to ftp....create exemption in firewall, then if pc password changes, the scan still works.

[Hansoon]

Re: SCX8128 - How does "scan to pc" work compare with "scan to server"?

Get yourself a nice cup of coffee and have a read:

http://www.copytechnet.com/forums/co...ndows-7-a.html

If you use this search thingy:

301 Moved Permanently

and enter ftp into the search box you will find lots of further information in Copytechnet.

Hans

(BTW Did I ever mention that the own search option of Copytechnet is rotten? )

[webauk]

Re: SCX8128 - How does "scan to pc" work compare with "scan to server"?

Scan to PC communicates with softwre already running on the PC as a service, while scan to server, scanner does everything then uses SMB to save to a network folder

[vishop]

Re: SCX8128 - How does "scan to pc" work compare with "scan to server"?

For this model, and along with others. Scan to SMB would give you the most stable kind of scanning. just like what webauk said, scan to PC, there is communication always with the PC running the software. Some glitch on your connection, a small interruption, or even when your computer sleeps, hibernate or alike, you lose connection. You wont be able to see your PC in the Scan to PC list. Though this is more flexible in some ways with features. Scan to FTP is a little difficult for this, except if you install a 3rd party like Filezilla.

Best thing, use Scan to SMB.