[sane-devel] Can only access scanner(s) as root (long)
jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk
jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:55:30 +0000 (GMT)
Henning,
thanks I realised earlier what I'd done wrong...I had loclhost and the FQN of
the same host in the net.conf.
Also I had previously installed saned in /usr and now it was in /usr/local
so it wasn't being found via inetd.
Thanks,
Jim
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:44:19AM +0000, jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> > Can someone tell me what I need to do to allow normal users to access
> > these devices?
>
> net.conf: add host name to contact (e.g. localhost)
> saned.conf: add host name that is allowed to scan (localhost is always
> allowed)
> inetd.conf/xinetd.conf: set up to run saned as root. But this file
> should not have been deleted :-)
>
> Info: man saned, man sane-net, http://home.arcor.de/jochen.eisinger/saned/
>
> Bye,
> Henning
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