I'm pretty sure that I had already done that. Anyway, like I said in my previous posts I've already switced to Debian where everything is working perfectly. So I'm not switching back to Ubuntu at this point. Allowing a bug in the distribution to remain unfixed for well over a year that disables your scanner is not acceptable policy for me.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:55 AM, TechnoSwiss <[email protected]>wrote: > I ran into a fix for this by accident while I was looking at a > permissions problem with hp-levels. > > Add saned to the group lp, that should fix the problem. > > -- > saned cannot access the scanner in Hardy > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229343 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “sane-backends” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > Status in sane-backends in Ubuntu Hardy: Triaged > > Bug description: > Starting with Hardy, my scanner device is no longer owned by the group > "scanner", instead (AIUI) the PolicyKit / ConsoleKit /HAL scheme uses ACLs > to allow the user with the active session access to the scanner. However > this scheme does not permit the SANE Network Demon "saned" to access the > scanner and hence other machines on the network can no longer access the > scanner. > -- saned cannot access the scanner in Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229343 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
