Network Environment; Directory Service Support - Canon ScanFront 300 Instructions Manual

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Network Environment

The network environment required to use the ScanFront is described below. To obtain details on your network environment, contact
your network administrator.
❏ Network Environment
● Microsoft Windows Network
Use the scanner in a Microsoft Windows Network
environment.
● Network Protocol
The scanner uses TCP/IP protocol to connect to the
network.
● IP Address Assignment
The TCP/IP protocol uses one IP address for each
device connected to the network. Consult your network
administrator to determine the IP address to assign to
the scanner.
● DHCP Support
The scanner supports DHCP (Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol). A DHCP server provides a
network environment in which IP addresses can be
obtained automatically from the DHCP server, so there
is no need to set an IP address for the scanner.
* The number of IP addresses that can be obtained using
DHCP is managed by the network administrator. For
details, consult your network administrator.
● 100Base-TX Support
The scanner supports 100Base-TX. However,
communication may be slower than the communication
speed of the network, depending on the other devices
connected to the network and the type of hub.
● SMTP (E-mail) Server
The scanner supports an SMTP server, so you can send
image files directly from the scanner by e-mail.
● FTP Server
The FTP server function supports an FTP server
configured within the local network, and is unable to
send to an FTP server that requires firewall settings.
● Fax
Scanned images can be sent to specified addresses as
fax documents by sending e-mails that include the
scanned images as attachments to an Internet fax
service. Therefore, you must specify message formats
and addresses in the method prescribed by your Internet
fax service.
● Printer
By specifying a printer connected to the same network
as the ScanFront as the destination, you can print
scanned images. In such cases, a computer on which
ScanFront Service is installed must exist on the same
network as the ScanFront scanner.
❏ Directory Service Support
● Active Directory
Active Directory is a directory service adopted by
Windows 2000, and information registered to Active
Directory can be used on other computers. The
ScanFront allows user information registered to the
domain server registered as the authentication server to
be used for authentication to log in to the ScanFront.
* A domain server that uses Windows NT Server for the
operating system cannot be registered as an
authentication server.
● OpenLDAP Server
The scanner supports OpenLDAP servers that can be
connected to with the LDAP (Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol) protocol.
You can authenticate ScanFront users and reference e-
mail addresses for registration to the address book using
the user information registered on the OpenLDAP
server.
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