Could you detail a procedure for doing this? Would adding localhost to the saned.conf accomplish this? --- Steven Santos Director Simply Circus, Inc. 86 Los Angeles Street Newton, MA 02458
P: 617-527-0667 F: 617-934-1870 E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:14 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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" >
