Re: how to make net scanner appear in xscanimage?

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:43:28 -0700

>>>>> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:10:12 +0200 (CEST), olberg@oso.chalmers.se said:

olberg> Dear all, I am new to this list and hope I'm asking my
olberg> question in the right forum. I have installed the sane
olberg> software on two linux boxes, one box (box1) has a HP SJIICX
olberg> scanner connected to it, the other box (box2) is supposed to
olberg> access the same scanner via the net.

olberg> Doing a 'xscanimage net:box1:hp' works just fine, but merely
olberg> calling 'xscanimage' only gives me pnm:0 and pnm:1 to choose
olberg> from.

olberg> As I want xscanimage to work as plug-in for gimp, I'd like
olberg> to have the net-accessible HP scanner as the default
olberg> device. I have edited the /etc/sane.d/net.conf in different
olberg> ways, but no success so far. I can't find it in the
olberg> documentation either. (remark: my location of the 'sane.d'
olberg> directory is the one preconfigured in the S.u.S.E 5.3
olberg> distribution)

Did you enable the "net" line in dll.conf? If not, that would explain
the behavior you're seeing.

--david

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