[sane-devel] Parallel and saned: GIMP impossible, since no default device found

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

Is the "net" backend in dll.conf enabled?

Gregor Hoffleit <gregor at hoffleit.de> said:

> * G. L. Griz' Inabnit <griz at outcast-consultants.redmond.or.us> [010814
> 18:46]: >       I found that it was my lines in /etc/inetd.conf that was at
> fault....
> > 
> > #sane           stream  tcp     nowait  saned.saned     /usr/sbin/saned
> saned
> > sane            stream  tcp     nowait  root.root     /usr/sbin/saned 
saned
> > 
> >       The commented line is the original, the second is the one that
> >       worked for me. Hope this helps.
> 
> Nope, that's not the problem; I was using the root.root version in the
> first place, i.e. saned is running as root.
> 
> Also, "xsane net:localhost:epson" works just fine as a normal user, i.e.
> saned *has* the correct permissions, but appearantly xsane isn't able to
> discover the 'net' devices when looking for available devices.
> 
> Griz, does 'xsane' (i.e. without any arguments) work for you as normal
> user? Does it find any device that's available through saned? That would
> interesting then, to find out why it doesn't work for me, then.
> 
>     Gregor
> 
>     
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