I tried running it as root already... and sane also can not find the scanner that way. It does take a few seconds to run though, interestingly. Running sane-find-scanner takes only a fraction of a scanner, and also then nothing found (but it seems that tool doesn't check network scanners).
Wouter. On 7 Jan 09, at 18:54, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Try running "scanimage -L" as root. If it finds the scanner, there is > a permission problem. > > Till > > Wouter van Marle wrote: >> Dear Till, >> Thank you for your answer. >> Unfortunately it doesn't work like that for me. I have installed the >> printer in CUPS, the uri is hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7500?ip=192.168.2.9 >> Printing works, so the above setting/uri is for sure correct. >> However scanimage -L doesn't list any scanners. >> Wouter. >> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 09:46 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: >>> To be able to access your scanner without supplying the scanner URI >>> (hpaio:/...) and so also to be able to access it with saned and >>> xsane, you need to set up a CUPS queue for the printing part of your >>> device (with CUPS URI >>> hp:/net/Officejet_J6400_series?ip=192.168.2.103). Then you can do >>> the scanimage command without the -d option: >>> >>> scanimage -x 215.9 -y 297 -pv --mode gray > $FILE >>> >>> and use also any other frontend without specifying your scanner. And >>> if you run saned, it will share your scanner then. >>> >>> Till >>> >>> Wouter van Marle 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 >>>>>> >>>> >>> > >