Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system
On Thu 04 Mar 2021 at 18:38:09 -0500, John Boxall wrote:
> I have been trying for some time to setup a system that will share an
> attached scanner over the network. I had hoped to use Buster as it is still
> the stable instance of Debian. I have followed everything in [1] but I could
> never get it to work. I then tried Bullseye and it worked right away. Today
> I decided to install a clean NETINST image of each and repeat the "server"
> steps as outlined at [1].
>
> Even though the howto states that it covers Debian from versions 8 to 11, I
> could not get it to work on Buster (10). The process failed on Buster,
> again, even though scanimage on the system saw the USB scanner (Epson
> Perfection 2480 Photo). I then installed Bullseye. The exact same process
> and the very same saned.conf file worked immediately.
>
> The client was the same in both cases (Buster).
>
> Is there a tweak that I am missing? Has there been a change that isn't in
> Buster but has made it to Bullseye? Any recommendations on debug steps would
> be appreciated?
>
>
> [1} https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork#Sharing_a_USB_Connected_Scanner:_the_Basics
The note on Bug #918358 towards the end of
https://wiki.debian.org/Scanner#perms
could help with a solution.
--
Brian.
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