[sane-devel] saned issues for remote scanner access

[Jim George]

Hi all,

thanks to all for helping resolving this.  By setting the device name in
sanetwain.ini in c:\windows to the device name returned from scanimage -L
everything now works.

One thing that might help people like myself would be if the location of
sanetwain.ini was explicitly named and this resolution was added to a
sanetwain FAQ (granted the fixes Herman and Henning should still be
applied).

Thanks again,

Jim


Herman Kuiper said:
> Hi,
>
>> - sanetwain should not call sane_cancel() when sane_open()
>> hasn't   succeeded. That should be fixed by the sanetwain author.
>
> Thanks for localizing that. I was aware that sometimes a cancel call
> would  trigger a segfault, but haven't had tiem to investigate further.
> BTW, is it  possible that something in sane itself has changed regarding
> this during  the last few versions? I got a couple of reports on this in
> the last  months, before that it seemed never to be an issue.
>
>> - the dll backend should be more intelligent when beeing askes for the
>> device   name "" (look at the list of devices and take the first one)
>> maybe.
>
> OK - maybe it was backend-dependent as well.
>
>> - sanetwain could look for a specific device name. It can use the
>>   list gotten from sane_get_devices() and use the first device to do
>> that.
>
> I'm not sure why I try to open the empty device. On first start, it
> should  ask for a list of devices and on next calls, use the last
> selected one.  I'll check.
>
>> - Tell sanetwain which device to use. I don't know how that works, but
>>   it must be possible otherwise sanetwain wouldn't work for anyone.
>
> In the ini file the currently selected device has an entry somewhere.
> The  name should be an exact match of what the backend returns as device
> name.
>
> My list of critical bugs is getting too long for my liking (a handful,
> but  still) so I probably will take some time next week to fix the bugs
> and  release a new version. Users having problems should'nt hesitate to
> bug me  if that takes too long :-)
>
> 	Herman
>


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Best Regards,


Jim George
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