Hi, Sorry to ask this question, as I'm sure it been asked thousands of times before. I have checked the archives and found a few answers, but I'm still having problems, connecting to my Mustek 600CP scanner as a normal user.
Heres my setup: RedHat 8.0 sane-1.0.9 patched with the mustek_pp-11.alpha driver xsane-0.89 Kernel-2.4.18 The scanner is a parallel one and is the only device on this port. I have commented out all references to other scanners in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf except for: mustek mustek_pp mustek_usb As for some strange reason it was picking up my Wintv card as a scanning device.. Running as root the scanner and xsane works great: [root@stimpy mark]# SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_PP=1 scanimage -L [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of mustek_pp to 1. device `mustek_pp:Mustek-600CP' is a Mustek 600CP flatbed scanner I have also read the documentation on: http://www.penguin-breeder.org/?page=sane-net#faq So a normal user can connect to my scanner, but this still fails. I have added the following to /etc/services: sane 6566/tcp saned # SANE network scanner daemon and also added an /etc/xinetd.conf/saned service sane { socket_type = stream server = /usr/sbin/saned protocol = tcp user = root wait = no disable = no } as on the sane faq page it states this: However, if you want to use saned to access a parallel port scanner, you have to replace saned.saned with root in your inetd.conf or user = saned, group = saned with user = root in your xinetd.conf and you do not need to change any device access rights. also telenting to it as root works, just I still cannot access it as a normal user running: scanimage -L -- Eagles may soar.. But weasels don't get sucked into jet engines...
