Hi Elliott-Brennan

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Elliott-Brennan wrote:

> Hi Darren,
> 
> Glad to see that someone else has one of these running. I'm afraid I
> don't quite know how to do what you suggest. Inside /dev I have a
> multitude of files and It's not clear to me which relate to scanners.
> Who would I determine this?
These would be:
/dev/scannerX  where 0 < X < n
/dev/usb/scannerX

I assume you are running a 2.6.x kernel

> 
> Being a newbie, I'm also not clear about how to go about making a group
> for the scanner - at home there's really only me that uses it (my wife
> is a 'user' but has steered clear of Linux - until I can get all this
> going, she's not clear, and I can't exactly show her, why there's any
> advantage over using any of our other Win machines :)
as root add a group
/usr/sbin/groupadd scanner

as root add a user to a group
/usr/sbin/usermod -G scanner <you>
/usr/sbin/usermod -G scanner <your wife>

On a GUI desktop Gnome
Applications->System Settings->User and Groups


> 
> That all said, I'm sure it'll get done - struggle struggle.
Dont you mean - fun fun
> 
> Thanks,
>       Patrick
> 
> 
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Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au>
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