maybe ask the guys that make the hpaio backend? it is part of the hplip project.
allan On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Wouter van Marle <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote: > Has anyone an idea on this issue? > > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:17 -0600, gobo wrote: >> you need to have hplip installed. with hplip you can then use hpaio >> to access the scanner across the network. for example: >> >> scanimage -x 215.9 -y 297 -d >> hpaio:/net/Officejet_J6400_series?ip=192.168.2.103 -pv --mode gray > >> $FILE > > OK that part works after substituting my scanner name and ip of course. > So the scanner can be addressed, and is scanning properly. > > But this is not the way I like to do my scanning of course, it's nice > for testing and all. How can I integrate this into a saned server or > whatever, so I can use xsane or another sane compliant software in the > network to access this scanner? > > Previously the HP was connected to the server over USB, and the rest of > the workstations could very easily access the scanner through the saned > interfaces. The workstations are on Mandriva Linux by the way, and could > easily add this scanner through the control panel. Just give the ip of > the server, and the scanner was detected automatically. > > Wouter. > >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Wouter van Marle >> <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am the happy owner of an HP Officejet Pro L7560 (an all-in-one >>> device). >>> >>> Until recently I had this connected to my server through USB, and >>> printing and scanning all worked fine. Of course using sane on the >>> server to access the scanner from the workstations. >>> >>> Now I have a new office, all is rearranged, and the Officejet is >>> connected directly to the network. It gets it's IP from the server by >>> DHCP, which I configured to be fixed, so far so good. Printing (though >>> Cups) works like a charm after some googling to get the correct way to >>> address the printer, but now scanning! How can I do this? A couple of >>> hours searching Google didn't give me a single clue... the scanner is >>> not found automatically by Sane, and no idea on how to address it. >>> >>> I'm looking for one of two solutions: >>> 1) server is talking to the scanner one way or another, and then >>> shares >>> the scanner with the workstations through the existing Sane interface. >>> 2) the workstations (three only, it's a small network) talk to the >>> scanner directly (they are all on the same 192.168.2.0/24 subnet) (if >>> easy/automatically to configure on the workstations). >>> >>> Wouter. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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 > > > > -- > 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"
