Anybody know how to "share" a scanner onto the network so other machines can access it?

Question. Why would you want to? Don't you have to walk up to the scanner in order to position your photos/documents properly on the scanner bed?

Now, sharing the RESULTING SCANS is important, of course. In that case, just share a folder using the windows networking features. That's what we do at our company, we have a "scanner server" that the HP scanner is connected to. It has a "Scans" directory that is shared. So you walk up to the scanner, do your scans and corrections locally right there on that machine and stick the resulting scans in the "Scans" folder. Then take your original photos back to your desk and open up your shortcut to the "Scans" share to grab the files.

Seems to me that remotely controlling the scanner would involve two trips back and forth to the scanner, compared to the one trip in my example above. (Trip one: Place photo on scanner bed, then back to your local PC to do the scan. Trip two: Retrieve the photo.)