shareing

[bailey]

can devices like a printer be shared if it is on a usb port?
or even a scanner?

[Charliey]

as far as i know, as long as a printer uses standard windows printer drives, as in it shows up in the printers folder, it can be shared over a network, it doesnt matter if its usb, or parallel port.

As for scanners, i dont think they can be shared, no matter what interface they use. If you know of a way to share parallel port scanners, please post, because i dont know of any way to share scanners.

[mairving]

They do make network scanners that will work over the network. They are fairly expensive. An ordinary scanner can't be shared as far as I know.

[bailey]

I just learned tonight that windows ME does have what is called WIA windows imageing accucation. it allows scanners to be shared over a network through the usb port, could it be copied to w98se and used there??