Dear Stephen, can you pls tell your general setup.
Is that like: linux-machine with scsi-card attached 1 cd-rom, 1 scanner Xsane running on this machine? Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 11:38:59 AM, you wrote: SL> - snip - >> Yes but there should be the scanner as well! This is the machine where >> the scanner is attached or? Have you got /dev/sg0 .. sg7? SL> Password: SL> # locate sg0 SL> /dev/sg0 SL> # locate sg7 SL> /dev/sg7 SL> They are there. ok. SL> It is an empty file having following content it SL> # This is the net config file. Each line names a host to attach to. SL> # If you list "localhost" then your backends can be accessed either SL> # directly or through the net backend. Going through the net backend SL> # may be necessary to access devices that need special privileges. SL> # localhost You should remove the '# ' before localhost, if you are using Xsane on the same machine where the scanner is attached. You must insert the ip-adress of the machine where the scanner is attached if it is a different machine. SL> How to find out the ip-number of the scanner. It is a rather old SL> machine but still working on Windows ??? There is no ip-number for a scanner, only for machines in the network. WHat do you mean with "but still working on windows"? Cheerio, Holger
