Hello all, I hope that this email is the appropriate way to add a question to the discussion. If not, apologies for the unsolicited email.
Has anyone managed to get a parallel port scanner (CanoScan N 340P) working with Mandrake 10.0? I used the Mandrake configuration tool to setup the scanner - it had the scanner model in its list - and according to the setup tool all went well. However, noone but the root user can use the scanner - no other user has the appropriate permissions. The scanner works well for the root user, by the way. Searching for this problem in Slug and elsewhere locates plenty of information about this problem and USB scanners, but nothing for parallel scanners. Should I locate the offending file and change its permissions? If so, what is the file? Searching file:/ for "scanner" did not find anything relevant. There is no scanner entry in /dev. Or should I somehow add users to the scaner group or vice-versa? I had this problem with Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 and just ran the scanner as root, thinking that Mandrake might eventually sort this out... Thanks, Bill Chivers --------------------------------------------- William J. Chivers Lecturer in Information Technology School of DCIT Faculty of Science and Information Technology University of Newcastle---Ourimbah Campus PO Box 127, Ourimbah, NSW 2259 Australia phone: +61 2 4349 4473 fax: +61 2 4349 4565 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
