[PLUG] XSane and a scanner on network server

Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org
Thu Sep 11 23:28:32 UTC 2008


Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Can anyone offer some ideas on how to get XSane on my workstation to
> find (and use) the saned daemon (xinetd) on the server?

Damn!  2 minutes after pressing "Send" I found it!

/etc/sane.d/net.conf

Added the IP for the server and BINGO!

Sorry for the worthless bits.


Rod
--
> 
> I've got saned up and running and can connect using telnet but xsane
> searches for devices doesn't find one and only offers pseudo-help and
> a "Close" option.
> 
> The scanner worked when it was connected directly to the workstation. 
> Now I want to off load the scanning my wife wants done back to her and 
> the WinXP system she uses but still be able to scan from my system.
> 
> I had this working in the early-Fedora days.  Now it wants to be difficult!
> 
> 
> TIA,
> Rod




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