libusb on FC2

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

Edit the ?etc/sane.d or /usr/local/etc/sane.d replace 
"scan-client.somedomain.firm  with the host name of the machine wishing 
to use this scanner.
make sure net is not commented out in dll.conf and add
sane 6566/tcp
to /etc/services


Cyber Source wrote:

> Also, I would like to see how your going to share that scanner on a 
> network, I was just thinking about that the other day.
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> Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
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>> I just converted my my wife to Linux. However, she needs a scanner 
>> and the one we had was not supported by sane. I recently bought a 
>> Plustek UT24 which is supported. After a lot of reading and 
>> configuring I can finally access it as root and actually scan images. 
>> When I try as a non root user it complains that no scanner is found. 
>> I've set /dev/usb/scanner* to root  and group scanner. I've placed 
>> all users in group scanner with read write permissions. The scanner 
>> is set up with libusb on Fedora core 2. I'd rather not require my 
>> wife to become root to use this scanner. Furthermore, I  intend to 
>> allow network access to this scanner so other users can access it. 
>> Does any one have any ideas? libusb is suppose to be user space and 
>> it does work as root. I'm baffled.
>> Bob Stockdale
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