Could you connect a RasPI or something else to the system, and use a more modern protocol to talk to the real world?
I have an old laser printer that does not have Wifi nor Ethernet and I put a tiny DLink router (it's abandoned, have 32MB of RAM but it's enough for OpenWRT) and I use that as a printer server. You probably can do the same with your scanner. Mauro https://www.maurosouza.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 9:45 PM Stewart Russell via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > Ever since NTLM support was removed from the kernel > <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=76a3c92ec9e0668e4cd0e9ff1782eb68f61a179c> > last year, I've been unable to access my network scanner. It's quite old (~ > 2012), but it has a huge scan area and I have a colour-calibrated workflow > for it, and there's no way I could afford a suitable replacement. > Curiously, for something so old, it supports AirScan, so I could resort to > that, only the colour calibration is off and it needs my computer's full > attention to pull scans over the network as they happen. > > I know no-one here has a crystal ball about where projects are going, but > I'm getting a little worried that the only other way to access the scanner > is via smbclient and the following options in my smb.conf: > > client min protocol = CORE > client use spnego = no > ntlm auth = ntlmv1-permitted > > Every time I access the share, I get the dire warning that 'The "client > use spnego" option is deprecated'. The documentation has even more dire > warnings about these features being removed entirely. > > Are there other ways to access a CIFS share? I thought there might be a > fuse driver, but I can't find one. I really don't want to have to trash > perfectly good hardware that's never shared outside my local LAN. > > thanks, > Stewart > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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