we produce neither the hpoj backend or the hpumd.rules file, so i'm afraid we dont have an answer. but, if i were you i would ask the hplip folks (or your distro maker) to improve their udev rules for devices with scanners.
allan On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Rick Miles <frmrick at aapt.net.au> wrote: > I have been using saned for networking scanners on slackware for 3 or so years > with hpoj and a hp-psc2355 but recently upgraded the server box to slack-12.1 > and > decided to not use hpoj as its a bit old. > > I set up as usually with permissions, /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf > and /etc/sane.d config files on both server and clients. I could scan as a > user > in an ssh session on the server but could not do so as client. > > I finally figured out that the permissions being set up were defined > in /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpumd.rules and not in 80-libsane.rules. The device > belonged to root:lp and in order to allow users to scan I had to change > permissions from 0664 to 0666 in the rule. I suppose the alternative would be > to > make the users members of lp but I've never heard of users being members of lp > before. > > What is correct in this situation? > > -- > Cheers, > > Rick Miles > > Movement stopped is no movement, > and rest set in motion is no rest. > > Written on Prickle-Prickle, the 35th of Bureaucracy, 3174 > http://turtlespond.net > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
