Another thing to check is if the server can reach its own saned on localhost, instead of using the scanner directly.
allan On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Steven Santos <Steven at simplycircus.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:00 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sounds like you are trying to use some sort of twain-sane bridge on >> the client? I would skip that for now, and make sure you can talk to >> sane natively from the client. Perhaps using XSane? I don't use >> Windows, so I'm not of much help there, sorry. >> >> allan >> >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Mike Wirth <mwirth at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Folks, >> > >> > Here's a copy of my last msg to Steven about my efforts to do remote >> > scanning with a Fujitsu fi-4750c (sent a couple weeks ago). >> > >> > As you can read, I was successful in having the scanner show up remotely >> > on >> > the client machine, but wasn't able to get the actual scan to occur. As >> > mentioned, I suspect a permissions problem somewhere along the chain >> > between >> > client and host. Haven't been able to get back to debugging this yet >> > (too >> > many other projects have priority :-) If anyone has any suggestions for >> > me >> > on how to sort this out (e.g., what to look for in the logs), let me >> > know. > > > Can you confirm that scanning works locally on the laptop? e.g. it actually > scans from the laptop? > > Can you boot a second computer into a linux boot disk, and see if it works > with the scanner? This would eliminate the sane-twain bridge as the > possible issue. > >> >> > >> > Re Allan's questions, I used the latest versions of SANE components as >> > of >> > last month. Scanner is a Fujitsu fi-4750c. I can "reach it" to select >> > it >> > in he scanning app on the client (Adobe Acrobat running on Mac OS X, >> > IIRC), >> > but attempting to commence a scan fails. (Don't remember the specific >> > error >> > msg; probably timeout). >> > >> > Steven provided me with some draft how-to instructions on setting up >> > saned >> > for my SCSI scanner, which were helpful in getting as far as I did. >> > Once I >> > sort out the remaining problems :-) I owe him an improved draft. > > > I look forward to that! > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
