[sane-devel] SCX-3405W scans with usb but not when shared from Linux Mint

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On 2020-05-19 9:27 a.m., vicki at thepenguin.org wrote:
> The output from the scanimage command is:
>
> home-E7250:~$ SANE_DEBUG_NET=50 scanimage -L
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of net to 50.
> [net] sane_init: authorize != null, version_code != null
> [net] sane_init: SANE net backend version 1.0.14 (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends 1.0.27
> [net] sane_init: Client has little endian byte order
> [net] sane_init: searching for config file
> [net] sane_init: done reading config
> [net] sane_init: evaluating environment variable SANE_NET_HOSTS
> [net] sane_init: evaluating environment variable SANE_NET_TIMEOUT
> [net] sane_init: done
> [net] sane_get_devices: local_only = 0
> [net] sane_get_devices: finished (0 devices)
> [net] net_avahi_browse_callback: CACHE_EXHAUSTED
> [net] net_avahi_browse_callback: ALL_FOR_NOW
>
>
You could also try (on the laptop):

SANE_NET_HOSTS=192.168.1.16 scanimage -L

... replacing the IP with that of your main machine.
This should explicitly add the IP to the list of hosts that would be 
considered in addition to what is configured.
I just tried that and it worked for me.

Cheers,
Ralph