[sane-devel] saned trouble

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:49:02AM -0700, Brian C wrote:
> Hi all.  I have what I suppose is a configuration problem with saned. 

Heich SANE version? There are quite some changes in 1.0.7.

> I have a system called enterprise that has a mustek:/dev/scanner attached.  
> If I issue the command "scanimage -T mustek:/dev/scanner" it works fine.  
> Also, if I issue the command "scanimage -T net:localhost:mustek:/dev/scanner" 
> it works fine.  Even just "scanimage -T localhost" works.

Even "scanimage -T the_sky_is_blue" will work :-) This doesn't mean
anything. Ok, it means that your scanner is working locally. If you
want to test if scanning with saned works, add localhost to
enterprise's net.conf and try "scanimage -d net:localhost:mustek:/dev/scanner".
Or just do "scanimage -L". This should also list yout network scanner.
E.g.:
hmg at hmg1:~$ scanimage -L
device mustek:/dev/scanner' is a Mustek 600S/600 II CD flatbed scanner
device mustek:/dev/sg0' is a Mustek 600S/600 II CD flatbed scanner

If this doesn't work, your problem is on "enterprise".

You can debug the client side with something like

SANE_DEBUG_NET=255 scanimage -L

The server side (saned) is a bit trickier. Remove/comment out the
entry for saned in (x)inetd.conf, sigHUP inetd and start saned maually
with debugging enabled: "saned -d255". Depending on the version of
SANE you will find debug messages in syslog or stderr. You can
additionally use the normal DBG output for the mustek backend if you
think it's a problem with this backend:
"SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK=255 saned -d255". 

Now start (at another console) scanimage -L. You must restart saned
manually after each connection in this debug mode.

> The problem lies when I try to access it from another workstation called 
> defiant.

Tough little ship :-)

> No matter which variation of the above network commands I give 
> (using enterprise instead of localhost) I get this error: "scanimage: no SANE 
> devices found."
 
> Do I NEED a 'hosts.equiv' file or can I skip that?  It seems to make no 
> difference.

Ignore this file. Maybe we should remove support completely.

> -- /var/log/daemons/info -------------------------------------------
> Mar  7 06:26:49 Enterprise saned[3523]: access by saned-user at Defiant accepted
> Mar  7 06:26:51 Enterprise saned[3523]: exiting

Access was accepted so the problem seems to occur later. There have
been some problems with saned in older versions leeding to segfaults
or other exits. So if you have a version before 1.0.7 this may be a
reason.

> -- hosts.allow on enterprise -----------------------------------------


> #
> # hosts.allow   This file describes the names of the hosts which are
> #               allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
> #               by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
> #
> #
> 
> defiant
> voyager
> runabout
> localhost
> enterprise
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Isn't the format of this file something like "dameon : client"? But as
saned accepted your access, it shouldn't matter in your case.

Bye,
  Henning