libusb on FC2
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Thu Oct 28 07:46:59 EDT 2004
ok I will give that a try someday when I get a chance. how did you make
out on getting a user to use the scanner. did you try the fstab line?
Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
>>
>>> 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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