Chapter 1 Before Use
❏Limitations
●Limitations in Browsing for Shared Folders
A problem in browsing for shared folders on computers running the Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system has been determined to exist. You will not be able to browse for shared folders to act as image file destinations by pressing the [Browse] button on the ScanFront touch panel. (Similarly, you will not be able to browse for shared folders in the screen that appears after you click [Browse] in the ScanFront Web Menu.) This problem is due to the specifications of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
As a result, if you want to specify a shared folder on a computer running these operating systems as the destination for image files, you must enter the shared folder manually. (When operating the ScanFront touch panel to specify a shared folder as the destination address, for example, enter the folder path in [Folder path].) Instead of entering the full path in such cases, you can press the [Browse] button after entering the computer name and the path up until the
This problem does not occur when the supplied ScanFront Service software is installed on the network.
●Limitations for Network Environments without ScanFront Service
To send image files to destinations and devices, such as the following, the supplied ScanFront Service software must be installed on a computer on the same network as the ScanFront scanner.
–Destinations (folders on computers, printers, etc.) located on different segments of a network on which a WINS server is not configured
–Printers on the network
–Certain NAS