Is there a way to share a scanner with an Airport Extreme?

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Published on 2009-10-27T17:37:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 10:13 UTC
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I've got an Airport Extreme as my home network's router. (Sidebar: I love it.)

The printer sharing is pretty phenomenal - I've got my printer hooked up to the base station and all the machines in the house can print to it just fine.

However, I have one of those combined scanner/printers, and nothing on the lan seems to be able to see the scanner.

Is there a way to get the Airport Extreme / Bonjour to also share the scanner half of the device?

For the record, this is an all Windows LAN, so I'm using Bonjour for Windows to get the print sharing to work. Also, I'm hoping to not add a whole stack of extra software to the ecosystem - only one machine in the house needs the scanner, so I can just plug the printer back into that machine and share the printer that way. Still, the Airport and Bonjour seem fancy enough that this seems like it should be doable.

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