[sane-devel] Network scanning permission problem

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 23:03:50 UTC 2009


>> your xinetd config needs the 'groups = yes' line?
>>
>> allan
>
> Thank you but I already have that in /etc/xinetd.conf.  Any other ideas?
>
> - Grant
>
>>> I have local scanning working via USB on an Epson Artisan 700.  I'm
>>> trying to use xinetd and saned to scan over the network from another
>>> system.  From the client, I get:
>>>
>>> $ scanimage -L
>>> device `net:192.168.100.1:epkowa:usb:004:003' is a Epson (unknown
>>> model) flatbed scanner
>>> $ scanimage
>>> scanimage: open of device net:192.168.100.1:epkowa:usb:004:003 failed:
>>> Access to resource has been denied
>>>
>>> I've checked the permissions for xinetd and saned and it looks good.
>>> The client user is in the scanner group and the server saned user is
>>> in the scanner group.  Any idea what could be wrong?
>>>
>>> - Grant

Got it!  I needed to add saned to the server's usb group.

- Grant



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