Adding IR c5045 document scanner to Mt. Lion?

Question

Currently trying to scan to a document scanner via LAN in a k-12 environment. I do have print capabilities but
the scanner does not show up. My Macbook is not enrolled with Active Directory. Rather, I am talking to the Printer / Scanner
by the IP address. Would anyone have suggestions on how I can set up the scanner portion of this? Thanks.

Answer 1

With SMB not being a supported service for the iR devices, it is still possible to scan to the Mac using the FTP protocol. However the FTP service is not a user selectable option in the System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing pane of 10.8 and 10.7. So to enable FTP you can open Terminal and type;
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
Then press Return. You then need to enter your admin password and press Return again.
With FTP enabled on the Mac, you can then create an address book entry in the iR using the following;
Protocol: FTP
Hostname: IP address of Mac
File Path: path to folder from Home folder
User Name: Full user name of the account owner of the destination folder
Password: Password for the account above
An example of the iR address book configuration to a Mac with an IP address of 172.17.4.33 and a user of Paul and a folder called Scans located on his Desktop would be;
Protocol: FTP
Hostname: 172.17.4.33
File Path: Desktop/Scans
User name: Paul
Password: password