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### How to share a scanner via the network using SANE? ### |
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Today I decided to set up a network access for all my LAN to my Agfa e20 scanne… |
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My scan server is an OpenSUSE 11.1 PC. Clients are running OpenSUSE 11.3 (but t… |
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I assume that the scanner is already working locally (that is, it is possible t… |
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On the server: |
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/etc/sane.d/saned.conf |
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This file is contains the list of hosts that are allowed to use locally attache… |
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192.168.0.0/24 |
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Therefore I am authorizing all my LAN (192.168.0.0/24) to have access to the sc… |
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/etc/xinetd.d/sane-port |
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The saned daemon (which is responsible for the sharing of the scanner over the … |
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service sane-port |
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{ |
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socket_type = stream |
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port = 6566 |
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wait = no |
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user = root |
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group = root |
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server = /usr/sbin/saned |
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disable = no |
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} |
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Of course, you need to declare sane-port as a service in /etc/services (if it i… |
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sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE Control Port |
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Note, that you will need to allow access to the port 6566 on your server if you… |
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On the client: |
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On the client side, the configuration is rather straigh-forward. First, I enabl… |
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net |
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Then, I edited the file /etc/sane.d/net.conf (which contains the list of scan s… |
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192.168.0.20 |
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The 192.168.0.20 IP address is nothing else than the IP of my scan server. |
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At this time, I launched the xsane tool on the client PC, and I was able to per… |
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