Scan to folder on a Mac

[Leebs14]

Hi, anyone help me please?

I have a customer who has a MX4100, happy with the machine and its prints and scans to his windows pc network all fine. Now one of the managers has decided to use a MAC and I have installed the print driver and got it printing ok but now he wants to scan to it and being totally honest here, i am really unsure of how?

can I scan to the IP address and a folder location or isn't it that simple?

[Ceechtay]

Re: Scan to folder on a Mac

You'll probably want to set it up to scan using FTP. On OSX 10.7 and later, you'll have to first enable FTP.

Open up Terminal, and type in this command:

sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

When prompted, type in the user's password.

Create the Scans folder. If you create it on the user's Desktop, the settings would be this:
Address Type: FTP
Address Name: Scan2Mac or whatever you want to call it
Hostname or IP Address: IP address of the Mac
Directory: Desktop/Scans
User name: the user's name - should be the one seen by the "logout" option
Password: user's password

After getting it to work, in a DHCP environment, you'd ideally want to change the "Hostname or IP Address" from the Mac's IP address to the Mac's hostname. I don't always get this to work, so I make sure that the customer knows how to log into the copier's webpage and knows how to update his computer's IP address in the Address Book.