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Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

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On Thu 04 Mar 2021 at 18:38:09 -0500, John Boxall wrote:

> I have been trying for some time to setup a system that will share an
> attached scanner over the network. I had hoped to use Buster as it is still
> the stable instance of Debian. I have followed everything in [1] but I could
> never get it to work. I then tried Bullseye and it worked right away. Today
> I decided to install a clean NETINST image of each and repeat the "server"
> steps as outlined at [1].
> 
> Even though the howto states that it covers Debian from versions 8 to 11, I
> could not get it to work on Buster (10). The process failed on Buster,
> again, even though scanimage on the system saw the USB scanner (Epson
> Perfection 2480 Photo). I then installed Bullseye. The exact same process
> and the very same saned.conf file worked immediately.
> 
> The client was the same in both cases (Buster).
> 
> Is there a tweak that I am missing? Has there been a change that isn't in
> Buster but has made it to Bullseye? Any recommendations on debug steps would
> be appreciated?
> 
> 
> [1} https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork#Sharing_a_USB_Connected_Scanner:_the_Basics

The note on Bug #918358 towards the end of

  https://wiki.debian.org/Scanner#perms

could help with a solution.

-- 
Brian.

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Sharing a scanner from a Buster system John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2021-03-05 00:40 +0100
  Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-03-05 09:40 +0100
    Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2021-03-05 15:30 +0100
  Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system David Pottage <david@chrestomanci.org> - 2021-03-05 11:00 +0100
    Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2021-03-05 15:40 +0100
  Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-05 12:10 +0100
    Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2021-03-05 16:30 +0100
      Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-05 18:10 +0100
        Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2021-03-07 18:10 +0100
          Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-07 18:40 +0100
            Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-07 18:50 +0100
              Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2021-03-07 19:10 +0100
                Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-07 19:50 +0100
            Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2021-03-07 19:00 +0100
              Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2021-03-07 19:20 +0100
                Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2021-03-08 00:20 +0100
                Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-03-08 14:00 +0100

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