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 > > -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
