please anybody make it more clear? can i scan to mapped or shared network drive? what the path wil be? i can use path as folder name only or i have to put the whole path? please help this thing drive me crazy.

I can give you a little nudge in the right direction. An IT guy and I collaborated on this path to shared folders on a server:

path: usersfolder/secondlevelfolder/mydocs

I've read a few posts on this, yet the logic of it still eludes me. I'll be interested in the answers.

Just to be clear - if we're talking about SMB scanning there is no such thing as a mapped drive as far as the copier's concerned.

A 'Mapped' drive is a drive letter representation of a network share. For example - drive X: = \\server\drivex

While the copier can not scan to X: it can scan to \\server\drivex - as host:server and path:drivex (a subfolder would be drivex\foldername)

Early firmware revisions use '/' instead of '\'. I always confirm things with a basic setup and work my way up - try scanning to the root of 'drivex' before graduating to 'drivex\folder'

I have recently had some degree of success with this.
1 in the HOSTNAME box type in the computer name that has the mapped/shared drive on it
2 Enter a qualified username, this must be a name that has full rights to the shared folder
3 Enter the password for the above user (cap sensative)
4 Enter the path ie. DOMAIN\sharedfolder if this is a network with a domain name otherwise enter just the sharedfolder without any slashes etc.

This should work
Good luck