[sane-devel] Epson Photo 4490 Scanner

[Claude Sutton]

Olaf:

That works.

Perfect the first time.

I really appreciate your efforts on my behalf.

CSSJR


Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp):

> Claude Sutton <claudesutton at suttonmachine.com> writes:
> 
> > Well, thanks to Olaf I can now scan.
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> > With one more small problem.
> >
> > I can only scan as root.
> 
> Permission problem accessing the device (as it is represented in the
> file system).
> 
> IIRC, you installed iscan from source, right?  That means the regular
> post-installation scripts didn't get run and you have to do that part
> yourself.  Go to the directory with your iscan sources and do this:
> 
>   ./utils/make-udev-rules ./utils/hotplug/iscan.usermap
> 
> wiht root privileges.  This creates /etc/udev/rules.d/###_iscan.rules,
> where the ### is the same number as used for the ###_libsane.rules
> file in the same directory.  On Debian GNU/Linux that would be 025.
> 
> After you've done that re-plug the USB cable and you should be all set
> to scan as a regular user.
> 
> > When I scan and save it, it saves the file with root permissions.
> >
> > As part of the attempt o get this going, I changed permissions to the iscan
> > folder to 777 and all of the sub directories I have looked at have that
> > permission.
> 
> That was not necessary.
> 
> > So where do I look to change permissions so I can save a file to my Desktop
> > with a different permission?
> >
> > Thanks for the help thus far.
> 
> Hope this helps,
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