Depends on the scanner. What type?

It may be a software thing, depending on which one you have. The 6300c comes with "remote scanning" software. Basically the scanner is hooked up to one computer on the network, and you install the same software on the other computers on the network but they use the remote scanning software to connect with the other computer, based on whatever name you chose on the connected PC. So in our case, the computer with the scanner has to be connected to the scanner, turned on, and also running the "Share Scanner" HP utility.

I don't know how to do it otherwise. This is the main reason we got this scanner. That and it has USB, parallel, and SCSI connectors. But we use the USB. Now we can scan from any computer.

The downside of sharing a scanner is, of course, the necessary manual operation of a scanner. If you have to scan more than one sheet, you need to make a seperate round trip to the scanner location for each sheet.

My dad and I are now looking a scanners with sheet feeds