Joel, I wrote the tutorial you are using, so I want to make sure we get your issue fixed and the tutorial updated.
I added some of the things from this topic to the tutorial. Can you give us an update on if you got this working? --- 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 Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote: > > Joel Webster writes: > >> First of all, thank you for all of your hard work getting SANE to be...sane. >> I recently acquired an HP Deskjet 3050A J611 series, which is one of their >> all-in-one printer/scanner combo machines. >> I would like to be able to use the device over my home network, where the >> device is connected to our file/print server. I can print to it everywhere >> (from windows & linux machines alike) with no problems, but I cannot scan >> from anywhere but from the server itself. It works flawlessly from the >> server, but I cannot even see the machine over the network. >> I have followed the advice on the >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane.d%20tutorial page and have worked >> through all of the troubleshooting steps three times to make sure I didn't >> miss anything. >> I can't even scan through localhost on the server it's connected to. All >> firewalls are disabled across all machines on the internal network. >> The file/print server is running Ubuntu 12.04. >> Are there any further steps I can take to figure this out? > > For lack of a crystal ball ;-), posting your /etc/sane.d/net.conf and > /etc/sane.d/saned.conf files as well as information about your network > configuration would be very helpful in trouble shooting this. For the > network configuration, the output of > > $ sudo ifconfig > > or > > $ ip addr > > will do. > > There is a small chance that saned may be run by a user that is not in > the appropriate group. To check that, run > > $ grep setfacl /lib/udev/rules.d/*-libsane.rules > $ groups saned > > and check that the bit between g: and :rw in the output from the first > command should be listed in the output of the second. In my case, the > output looks like this (Debian wheezy) > > ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes", RUN+="/bin/setfacl -m g:scanner:rw > $env{DEVNAME}" > saned : saned scanner > > and "scanner" is both lines so I'm good. > > Other than that, check that saned is running with > > $ sudo service saned status > > Hope this helps, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION > FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom > http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org >