[sane-devel] Fwd: SANE network scanning?

[Steven Santos]

Could you detail a procedure for doing this?

Would adding localhost to the saned.conf accomplish this?
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:14 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Another thing to check is if the server can reach its own saned on
> localhost, instead of using the scanner directly.
>
> allan
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Steven Santos <Steven at simplycircus.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:00 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sounds like you are trying to use some sort of twain-sane bridge on
> >> the client? I would skip that for now, and make sure you can talk to
> >> sane natively from the client. Perhaps using XSane? I don't use
> >> Windows, so I'm not of much help there, sorry.
> >>
> >> allan
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Mike Wirth <mwirth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Folks,
> >> >
> >> > Here's a copy of my last msg to Steven about my efforts to do remote
> >> > scanning with a Fujitsu fi-4750c (sent a couple weeks ago).
> >> >
> >> > As you can read, I was successful in having the scanner show up remotely
> >> > on
> >> > the client machine, but wasn't able to get the actual scan to occur.  As
> >> > mentioned, I suspect a permissions problem somewhere along the chain
> >> > between
> >> > client and host.  Haven't been able to get back to debugging this yet
> >> > (too
> >> > many other projects have priority :-)  If anyone has any suggestions for
> >> > me
> >> > on how to sort this out (e.g., what to look for in the logs), let me
> >> > know.
> >
> >
> > Can you confirm that scanning works locally on the laptop?  e.g. it actually
> > scans from the laptop?
> >
> > Can you boot a second computer into a linux boot disk, and see if it works
> > with the scanner?  This would eliminate the sane-twain bridge as the
> > possible issue.
> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Re Allan's questions, I used the latest versions of SANE components as
> >> > of
> >> > last month.  Scanner is a Fujitsu fi-4750c.  I can "reach it" to select
> >> > it
> >> > in he scanning app on the client (Adobe Acrobat running on Mac OS X,
> >> > IIRC),
> >> > but attempting to commence a scan fails. (Don't remember the specific
> >> > error
> >> > msg; probably timeout).
> >> >
> >> > Steven provided me with some draft how-to instructions on setting up
> >> > saned
> >> > for my SCSI scanner, which were helpful in getting as far as I did.
> >> > Once I
> >> > sort out the remaining problems :-) I owe him an improved draft.
> >
> >
> > I look forward to that!
> >
>
>
>
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