Thanks for all the good comments from all on the list. Printing - works fine. I use CUPS and it goes along without a problem. I use the standard HP driver that works for tons of other systems. Scanning *pulls hair out* Part of the time xsane will find the device ... for awhile it was fine and would scan one page ... but never would it scan a multipage document, which is what I REALLY want to be able to do with it. Faxing I can do manually and never be bothered by it ... scanning needs to work flawlessly in order to save me time as part of my job. I have ended up putting it back onto a Windows box and just using the standard HP interface - works flawlessly. Any suggestions on the configuration setup for xsane would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Randy On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 15:32 -0500, Bruce Broecker wrote: > I'm running an HP Photosmart 3210 (basically, a consumer version of the > same printer). All my boxen talk directly to the printer. That is, I > don't have any system dedicated as a printer server. > > I've found that HP's opensource drivers as packaged for Suse (10.0, > 10.1) work quite well for both printing and scanning. I will need to > review my config at home tonight to provide some specific > recommendations. For example, I know I had to uncomment a section of the > SANE config to get scanning working on any system in which I wished to > scan. > > For printing, I just treat it like any old HP jetdirect and follow the > CUPS configuration wizard to set it up. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Randy Clarksean > > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:26 PM > > To: tclug > > Subject: [tclug-list] Print Server / Firewall, Etc. > > > > First .. thanks for the KVM emails this past week. You > > helped me narrow in on some hardware that will work for what I need. > > > > I will be moving my office shortly and I want to "clean up" a > > number of messy network issues that have created themselves > > over time ... laziness or hurrying to get something to work > > ... I need to streamline some things. > > > > One is a print and file server. > > > > Concern: I want to be able to run my HP OfficeJet 6310xi > > All-in-One via the printer server ... and ... have the > > ability to scan documents, etc. > > to a computer, whether it be a Linux or Windows box. It is a > > USB connection ... or can be connected via the network itself > > (I believe that its capabilities are limited for Linux when > > hooked up on the network connection). > > > > Hooking it straight to a Linux box ... appears to have > > limited some of its capabilities already. The scanning of > > documents is flakey ... and sometimes does not work at all. > > > > Anyone have any experience to share with me about print > > servers and the ability to actually take full advantage of > > all features from one of these all in ones? Maybe I am doing > > something wrong ... fancy that :-) > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Randy > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list