Sharing a Multifunction Printer/Scanner Over Network

So I have an ubuntu server running in my household and I managed to share my printer (Canon MP250) to the rest of the Windows machines (using Samba). However, I can't quite figure out how to share the scanner (yes the MP250 is a multifunction device). I've attempted SANE with the sanetwain (front end for windows) but that doesn't quite seem to work. Right now I've resorted to VNC'ing into the ubuntu server and using the scanner app there which dumps files to a shared folder. Sigh. This is a pain. Does anyone perhaps know how to share the scanner?

Question by B.Brown on Super User, licensed CC BY-SA. We show a short excerpt and link to the original thread as credit.