Re: [LUG] Sane insanity (?)

["Andrew Pearce" <arpearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith" <kam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:31 AM
Subject: [LUG] Sane insanity (?)


> I have a scanner set up using SANE and it works. Trouble is if I try to
> run it over the network (because it's a SCSI scanner and the SCSI box is
> usually headless) SANE can't find the scanner. Which means lugging a
> monitor across the room etc. etc whenever I need to scan something. Now
> I've discovered that so long as I'm logged on to the SCSI box directly,
> even if only through a text terminal, the scanner becomes visible.
>
> Does anyone understand what's happening, and more to the point how I can
> stop it?
>
>
> Keith (Bailey)
>
I recently had the same problem with a scsi scanner,  i found the source of
my
problem was due to the permissions on the scsi device,   /dev/sg0 .  When my
machine got restarted the permission got reset to crw-------,  it work with
saned
i had to change it to crw-rw-rw.

Andrew



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