Olivier F. R. Dierick writes: > Hello,
Hi, > On a recently upgraded Ubuntu 16.04 system, I get the following message > when starting xsane for the first time after opening a session: > > --- Quote --- > HPLIP cannot detect printers in your network. This may be due to > existing firewall settings blocking the required ports. > When you are in a trusted network environment, you may open the ports > for network services like mdns and slp in the firewall. For detailed > steps follow the link. > http://hplipopensource.com/node/375 > --- End quote --- > > I have two local HP USB printers (without scanner functionality) and one > local non-HP USB scanner. The local scanner is shared on the network > through the saned net backend. Everything is working properly except > that error message that pops up when starting xsane. > > How can I get rid of that message without opening ports? Is there a way > to prevent xsane from using HPLIP network discovery? Have you commented out all the backends you don't need in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf as well as in any and all files below /etc/sane.d/dll.d/? Based on your description, all you need enabled is the net backend and whatever backend supports your non-HP USB scanner. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
