Hi all,

I am having trouble sharing the scanner of a Brother MFC-7420. The MFC is attached to a Slack 12.2 computer which I'll call the server. xsane accesses and uses the scanner functions from that computer without problem. Another Slack 12.2 computer on the same LAN, which I'll call the client, is able to print to the MFC fine, but the MFC is not seen by xsane from the client computer.

To configure, I inserted the line
in /etc/inetd.conf on the server, created the saned user and group, and made sure that saned was part of the scanner group. On the client computer I added the ip of the server in /etc/sane.d/net.conf.

The odd thing is that this did work once. However, a couple of days later when I tried again it did not work.

Can anyone help me resolve this one?

Thanks,
Brian

On the client machine, does:

list the device?

If so, you can force the server scanner into use with $ xsane <name of server_scanner> (as returned by $ scanimage -L)

I've found xsane to be rather quirky and I had issues a while back, that, iirc, were partially caused/resolved by changing versions.

cheers,

No, scanimage -L does not list it.

Brian

Does the user on the client belong to the group lp? This is something new with 12.2 and had me stumped at first.