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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