<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks, Ralph for the info below.<div class="">If I'm understanding correctly, once the scanner is successfully connected via USB to a local computer, you can share that scanner to the LAN.</div><div class="">Is that correct?<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From what I understand (at least from <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork" class="">this link</a>)</div><div class="">On the Client machine</div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div>in file 'dll.conf' (/usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf), un-comment "net"</div></div></div><div class=""><div>in file 'net.conf' (/usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf), Add the ip address of the Server machine (the one connected via USB to the scanner)</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>On the Server machine</div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div>in file 'sane.d' (/usr/local/etc/sane.d), add the IPs permitted to scan.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>Am I on track? Not working for me yet, but there's a note in 'sane.d':</div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div># NOTE: /etc/inetd.conf (or /etc/xinetd.conf) and</div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div># /etc/services must also be properly configured to start</div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div># the saned daemon as documented in saned(8), services(4)</div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div># and inetd.conf(4) (or xinetd.conf(5)).</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 6, 2021, at 10:58 PM, Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" class="">skelband@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Using saned/net backend allows you to remotely connect to a local</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">scanner using the SANE net protocol.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Basically, the saned daemon advertises local scanners (say through USB)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">and permits the special "net" backend to connect in from other machines</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">on the network as though it were local.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>