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Larsson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-22

Posts: 157

Network scanner password problems

I've set up a scanner on my server using Sharing your scanner over a network.
Scanner is detected and works correctly on the server. But on my client I have one problem. If I run scanimage -L or simple-scan (in terminal) I get prompted for a password. If I just press enter (without any password), both scanimage and simple-scan detects the scanner and works correctly:

> scanimage -L
Password for user on 192.168.0.101?  
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname USB 2.0 PC Camera virtual device
device `net:192.168.0.101:xerox_mfp:libusb:001:004' is a SAMSUNG ORION multi-function peripheral

The user in this case being the user on my client, and the ip is my server ip.  So how do I fix this problem?

Server:
Sane 1.0.23-3 and xinetd 2.3.15-2  is installed.
/etc/sane.d/saned.conf have my client ip.
/etc/services have sane-port 6566/tcp uncommented.

/etc/xinetd.d/sane contains:

service sane-port
{
	port        = 6566
	socket_type = stream
	wait        = no
	user        = root
	group       = scanner
	server      = /usr/sbin/saned
	# disabled by default!
	disable     = no
 }

Client:
Sane 1.0.23-3 and simple-scan 3.6.0-1 installed.
/etc/sane.d/net.conf contains my server ip.
User is in scanner group.

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"If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear." - A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

Larsson

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-22

Posts: 157

Re: Network scanner password problems

Just to get started solving my problem. Is there anyone who have a network scanner that doesn't have this problem and could share his or hers configuration?

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"If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear." - A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)