Before you set up PaperCut MF for Integrated Scanning, you need to perform the following set up tasks. This guide will take you through:
configure PaperCut MF for email notifications
add user home directory and email details
determine if and how you will use user groups
provide access to network directories (for Scan to Folder scan actions only)
Important
Depending on your device, you might also need to configure the device for Integrated Scanning. For more information, see the embedded manual for the device.
If you want scan actions that deliver to an email address, you must ensure that PaperCut MF is configured for email notifications. For more information, see the section called “System Notifications and Emailing”.
You must ensure that all users have:
a home folder specified for the Scan to Home Folder scan action
an email address specified for the Scan to My Email scan action.
For more information about adding user details, see the section called “Advanced: Add user home folder and email details”.
Before you set up your scan actions, you should identify the user groups to which you want to allow access to each scan action.
For example, for educational sites, you might want to have a user group for all students and another user group for all teachers. The students group could have access to a Scan to my Email scan action. The teacher group could have access to a Scan to my Home Folder scan action as well as the Scan to my Email scan action.
For a corporate site, you might want to set up a group for executives so they can scan confidential documents to a network folder that has restricted access.
If you want scan actions that are delivered to a network folder:
determine the scan delivery folders
change the PaperCut MF service account
provide access to scan delivery folders
Before you set up your scan actions, you need to identify the folders to which scan jobs can be delivered. The PaperCut MF service account needs access to all of these network folders.
This might include:
user’s home folder—if all user folders are under one root folder, use an inherited permission for that folder.
network folders specified in PaperCut MF scan actions
The account that runs the PaperCut MF service needs read and write access to the network folders or Network Attached Storage (NAS) to which scanned files will be sent. Only the PaperCut MF Application Server needs access to these folders.
By default, the account that runs the PaperCut MF service is:
Windows—
SYSTEMaccountMac—
papercutaccountLinux—
papercutaccount
This account does not have read and write permission to network folders. You need to create a user account that can run services and has read and write access to all required folders.
The account that runs the PaperCut MF Server services by default does not have read and write permission to network folders. You need to replace this PaperCut MF service account with the service account you created.
In the Services console, stop the PaperCut MF Application Server service.
Right-click the PaperCut MF Application Server service, then select .
Click the Log On tab.
Select This account.
Enter the service account name and password.
Click .
Start the PaperCut MF Application Server service.