MF642C/643C/644C
So i have a Canon MF644c printer, and a NAS. Made sense to me to be able to scan and save directly to a SMB share names “scans” on the NAS, and be able to get to the scans from any device in the house. I guess this made sense to canon because it worked and was fairly easy to set up.
Then there was a firmware update.
For almost a year we have had to scan to email (horrors!) and then save. I can’t even remember all of the things i tried. Not really important now.
What is important is that my garage is full of photos that belong to my mother in law, thanks to some hurricanes last season. It would be nice to be able to scan them and then give them back, now that her house is habitable again (just in time for a new hurricane season…).
So, I asked ChatGPT (again I think? could not find the first attempt in my history but i could have swore I tried it back then). Didn’t pinpoint the exact issue (and i have not uploaded my exact settings, so probably my bad), but pointed me in the right direction, so i thought I would share. I changed the host name of the NAS for the IP, but I don’t think that was the issue. I had a / in front of the share name. Removed the / and now it works again.
So, to set up a button to scan to a file on a windows share, here are the basic steps, and some screen shots:
- Set up your share in the Address Book. I used coded dial, looks like favorites will work as well.
- pick the type as “File”
- set your name
- set protocol to SMB
- folder path is the share name (without a leading slash!)
- set the username / password that have access to the share.
- Go to Application Management, and pick “Scan to preset destination”
- Select the type as “File” and hit the switch button
- Pick your share from the Address book
- set the other scan options you prefer, and save
