On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > I just opted VNC as 'food for thought' not as a real option for your mom (or > mine)=:o) > > I can understand what you're getting at but this "killer App" thing gives me a > kind of retro feel. > A lot of trouble to create something a lot of people say they need but won't > be using anyway because of the inconveniences it brings about. >
But saned is included in the sane-backends rpm. All that really needs to be done is to make a subpackage which contains saned, /etc/xinetd.d/saned (example in the man page) which creates the saned user in %pre. Finally someone needs to add sane to the /etc/services file (or try and have the sane package mangle it in %post or something). In fact, if someone will commit the stuff, I will do it myself, testing n my 9.0 box which I still need to finish setting up, and mail the changes to Till. Only thing to decide on is how to handle the /etc/services entry, and handling of device permissions ... > My personal view could be distorted because I use ssh an -X forwarding quite a > lot and share as much hardware as I can. Sure, X-Forwarding is great, just is too much mission to setup for Windows users ... > > This means I've got gimp running on the remote machine (I hardly ever use > xsane directly) that has the scanner, add it (the resulting scan/image) to > the project I'm working on (which is rsync'ed daily on all the boxes) , print > it using cups (usually on the box where I sit) and burn the resulting > demo(remotely again) on yet another machine. http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jhaeger/webCDwriter/ We use this quite a bit to stop every Windows user complaining that they also want a CD-Writer. Unfortunately it can't go in the distro, but the author currently provides RPMs for 9.0, and I normally try and make some while he is running an old release ... > Essentially I think X forwarding (or vnc, or whatever) is easier to add to > xsane than rewrite/create a saned that does the same, only on a limited > scale. In other words: A broad(er) perspective of integrated remote services > (web based?) is needed here, not just an xsane copy of cups. > Maybe you misunderstood. Everything is there, it just needs to have slight configuration tweaks. I have been scanning remotely with xsane/saned since I got my USB scanner about a 9 months ago. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
