LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] I fail to use my scanner over the network

Hello together,

I want to use my scanner over the network. I have three Linux-PCs in a network, all running Gentoo. On one of the PCs there is a HP-PSC1410 Printer/Scanner installed.
Printing with Cups via network and from the local machine works well. Also scanning from the local-machine (the scannerserver) using xsane works well.
Now I want to use the scanner from the other machines. With google I found some tutorials about scanning over the network , but the tutorials are somewhat dated.
I've installed xsane, sane-backends and hplip on all machines. On the scannerserver I have installed xinetd and configured it to start saned if a request comes via port 6566/TCP. I created a file etc/xinet.d/saned:

Code:

# /etc/xinetd.d/saned

service sane-port

{

  port        = 6566

  socket_type = stream

  wait        = no

  user        = daemon

  group      = daemon

  server      = /usr/sbin/saned

}

This seems to work. nmap -sV gentoo gives the following output:

Code:

# nmap -sV gentoo

PORT    STATE SERVICE  VERSION

631/tcp  open  ipp      CUPS 1.3.10

6566/tcp open  unknown?

which means that the port for scanning-requests is open. On the clients there is /etc/sane.d/saned.conf configured for scanning over the network. When I run scanimage -L on one of the clients I get

Code:

# scanimage -L

No scanners were identified ......

At the same time, using tcpdump on the scannerserver I can see the request comming to the scannerserver and syslog-ng logs

Code:

# tail -f /var/log/messages

Oct 11 22:08:27 Gentoo saned[4427]: saned from sane-backends 1.0.19

ready

Oct 11 22:08:27 Gentoo saned[4427]: check_host: access by remote host:

192.168.178.61

Oct 11 22:08:27 Gentoo saned[4427]: init: access granted to

root@192.168.178.61

Oct 11 22:08:27 Gentoo saned[4427]: io/hpmud/musb.c 135: unable

get_string_descriptor -1: Operation not permitted

Oct 11 22:08:27 Gentoo saned[4427]: io/hpmud/musb.c 1949: invalid product id

string ret=-1

Oct 11 22:08:27 Gentoo saned[4427]: io/hpmud/musb.c 135: unable

get_string_descriptor -1: Operation not permitted

Oct 11 22:08:27 Gentoo saned[4427]: io/hpmud/musb.c 1954: invalid serial id

string ret=-1

Oct 11 22:08:29 Gentoo saned[4427]: quit: exiting

At this point I need a little help. Has anyone an idea? Thanks in advance

Markus