Windows Server 2012 – Distributed Scan Server service won’t start

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I just purchased a printer/scanner (Epson WF-7620) and am trying to configure it as a network printer/scanner for the first time. I have it connected to my server computer via a USB printer cable. I installed all of the print management roles but the scan server role/feature won't start. Printing works fine through the network. I can get on a desktop and see the printer that's on the server and print to it. I can also use the scanner but I have to be on the server to do it. I can't seem to figure out how to get it to allow me to use the scanner to scan documents and have the server place the scanned documents into a shared folder on the network. Any ideas?

I'm assuming the problem is because the scan server service won't start but I can't figure out how to get it to do so to safe my life. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

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Why do you not configure the server with SMTP (point that to your eMail server) and then it can do "scan 2 email" as explained by Epson here.

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What you're missing, as far as I can tell, is that NPS is not a supported role on Server 2012 Core. (Even though RRAS is.)

When Windows Server 2012 is in Server Core mode, the following server roles are supported:

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Scanning functionality is capable when you directly interface with the printers, but when you share out the printers on a Windows server like you've done you have a "middle man" that is handling the print queues and sending the actual jobs to the printer. However, they are print drivers, not added functionality like scanning options, and even if the server had the 3rd party scanning software installed and functioning locally it still wouldn't "receive" a scan job from a client like this with just a shared printer queue.

As such, it really is only good for printing itself...not for scanning functionality.

If you need scanning functionality from the client workstations to the printer, then you'll need to setup a direct connection to them, at least for the scanning portion...either through whatever scanning program you are utilizing, or Canon's own software, etc.

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